Big Bang?

[Otto]

Agnosticism is the position of believing that knowledge of the existence 
or non-existence of God is impossible. It is often put forth as a middle 
ground between theism <http://www.skepdic.com/theist.html>atheism 
<http://www.skepdic.com/atheism.html>. Understood this way, agnosticism 
is skepticism <http://www.skepdic.com/skepticism.html> regarding all 
things theological. The agnostic holds that human knowledge is limited 
to the natural world, that the mind is incapable of knowledge of the 
supernatural. Understood this way, an agnostic could also be a theist or 
an atheist. The former is called a /fideist/, one who believes in God 
purely on faith. The latter is sometimes accused by theists of having 
/faith in the non-existence of God/, but the accusation is absurd and 
the expression meaningless. The agnostic atheist simply finds no 
compelling reason to believe in God.
The term 'agnostic' was created by T. H. Huxley 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879757493/roberttoddcarrolA/> 
(1825-1895), who took his cue from David Hume 
<http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/h/humereli.htm> and Immanuel Kant. 
<http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/k/kantmeta.htm> Huxley says that he 
invented the term to describe what he thought made him unique among his 
fellow thinkers:  and

    *They were quite sure that they had attained a certain "gnosis" --
    had more or less successfully solved the problem of existence; while
    I was quite sure I had not, and had a pretty strong conviction that
    the problem was insoluble*.

http://www.skepdic.com/agnosticism.html

Atheism is traditionally defined as /disbelief/ in the existence of God. 
As such, atheism involves/ active rejection/ of belief in the existence 
of God.
However, since there are many concepts of God and these concepts are 
usually rooted in some culture or tradition, atheism might be defined as 
the belief that a particular word used to refer to a particular god is a 
word that has no reference. Thus, there are as many different kinds of 
atheism as there are names of gods.
http://www.skepdic.com/atheism.html

		
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