Malcolm McMahon (malcolm at pigsty.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: On 19 Jul 99 04:27:50 GMT, czar at ecn.ab.ca () wrote:
: >I take it English is not your native language. Let's break it down,
: >shall we? A-theism -> "without theism".
: Or Athei-ism, the belief that there's no God.
: That's certainly what it meant when I was at school. Of course that
: was a while back.
Wow. And I thought schools were crappy nowadays. I suppose it's too
late for you to get your money back. Maybe you could sue.
: >Agnosticism holds that any knowledge pertaining to the existance of god
: >or the veracity of scripture is inherently unknowable. A-gnostic ->
: >"without knowledge".
: How about people who just don't believe there is enought evidence
: either way, rather than argue that evidence is inherently impossible.
That has become one of the "popular" definitions, but it is still a far
cry how Huxley (who coined the term) meant it.
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