Big Bang?

[David Casseres]

Thank you, Otto.  Of several "corrections" I have received, yours is
the first one that is actually correct.

On 10/4/05, Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> 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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