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GameOver22 said:
Rath said:


Then I suggest you look up academic works and find what definition they use. You will find it is the same as the definition in the Oxford dictionary. As I said, I'm not going to debate on this issue as there aren't any shades of grey - you've simply got the wrong definition of the word.

Actually, it isn't. Granted, I'm not an expert. I've read two books. Atheism and Theism and The God Dialogues, and both define agnosticism as a lack of belief and atheism as the belief that God does not exist. You can also just peruse The Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and you'll find the same thing.

 

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01215c.htm

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/atheism-agnosticism/

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/sn-huxley.html

In all of these (including in the last one from the person who coined the word) agnosticism is the belief that the existence of God is unknowable. This will be my last post though, there isn't much more for me to say.