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Does the fact that you are agnostic with regard to religion make its way into effecting your everyday life? If you get a problem where you “ Just do not know the answer ” how do you tackle the problem? Is it the same as how you tackle religion.

My belief is that to tackle ANY problem, religion included, one uses, for the most effective result, science. Further we need all to tackle the access of everyone to science … Please see my Group ‘ Non Religious science teacher-any age ’ In this sites Group section . You do not have to have been employed as a science teacher only want to improve everyone’s science education.

Mcflewster 8 Mar 28
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I, for one, am NOT Agnostic but 100% Atheist and always have been and always will be.
Therefore, to find a solution to any problem/difficulty that has arisen I rely upon logic and reasoning combined with the knowledge, skills and abilities gained and experienced from events, etc, in my past.
Plus, If I cannot afford to purchase something I need to complete a task at hand, then I will also apply those skills, etc, and set about making my own version of what I need.

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well, i am not an agnostic. i'm an atheist.

when i was a teacher, i told my students that "i don't know" is a good answer... with caveats. if it's an opinion question, and you've thought about it, and you haven't enough info to have an opinion, then it's a good answer. if it's an opinion question and you're just too lazy to think about it, then it's not a good answer. also, "i don't know... let's find out!" is a BETTER answer! of course there are some questions in which someone may legitimately lack an interest. for example, today was the opening home game of the minnesota twins. who was pitching? i don't know and i don't care! furthermore, science wouldn't have helped me had i cared (except to the extent that science made technology possible and that made the internet possible and i could look it up on google, providing i knew how to tell the difference between fact and fiction -- if someone posted that elvis had come back to life and was pitching today, i pride myself that i would look for an alternative source of information!)

that being said, people DO need better education in scientific principles, which can be used as historical research principles as well. science isn't the only subject sorely in need ot attention in this country, but it's an important one.

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I think because I do (and did) use logic and scientific method I'm far more likely to discover my way out of religion. (Which is what happened).

It's my most basic setting.

"Non Religious Science teachers -any age" if you want to link to the Group. 😉

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No. Life is for getting on with. Religious or scientific suggestions are irrelevant. I just do what I feel is appropriate at the time with no calling on religion or science for a solution.

Life is for getting on with. AGREE. So sorry you seem to miss out on the Eureka!! feeling that science can give you, but there is no necessity to feel that.

@Mcflewster Nothing wrong with science but it’s not the only area of life that provides Eureka moments!

@Geoffrey51 That is true. Are you thinking of the one that I am thinking? Beside that one though, there is religious rapture, champaign with the lottery result, a goal/strike, seeing Queen/President, baby into the world .etc, etc. However I did not say it was exclusive to science just that it was a pity to miss out on the ones that science CAN provide. Also science ones turn out to have something useful available for all people in the world. I suppose that religious rapture is in that category too.

@Mcflewster Don’t know which one you are thinking but none of those. The eureka of art when you compose, construct, create something new.

@Geoffrey51 Intercourse climax

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It is exactly the opposite. Because I am capable of logic and reasoning I am generally better than others at solving problems. Fyi your question is both ignorant and offensive, well done.

Ignorant of what? Thank you for your time.

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I think it's different than the God "problem". If I have an actual tangible issue or problem in my everyday life then there are usually practical solutions or accepted outcomes and eventually if you keep working on something then it will work out somehow whether positively or negatively, depending on how you look at it. That's not the case with the God "problem". There is no practical or tangible way to have knowledge about a God.

But you still feel the need to try?

@Mcflewster Try what? To have knowledge about a God? No, I don't "try". I'm Agnostic. I believe it's impossible to know that one way or the other.

@Piece2YourPuzzle Maybe trying to understand how other can believe in God would help to eliminate them.

@Mcflewster I'm not sure what you mean.

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Agnosticism is not a helpless "I don't know / can't make up my mind". It is just an honest acknowledgement that no data is (or can be) available to stake a knowledge claim on a particular topic.

This empowers me to not waste energy determining the undeterminable. God is not, after all, a necessary entity to explain or predict experienced reality. Reality can be understood, particularly for practical everyday needs, entirely in terms of human psychology, cause and effect, etc., via critical thinking and the scientific method.

Similarly, atheism is just not forming unjustified / unsubstantiatable beliefs based on appeals to authority and other faulty reasoning. This frees one up to use your mind for useful, rather than useless, things.

Well, there may be a small minority of nutjobs (all Christians Muslims, Religious Jews) who mistakenly believe that a god does interfere with reality because of their prayers.

@JCII " A small minority....." you have to joking my friend.

@Triphid Yes!

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Think it pays to always look for scientific evidence first, try it if you can, (do your own experiment), try to use logic if they are not available, instinct if logic does not get you there, and faith as a last resort. Fortunately after more than sixty years on this planet, I have never needed to go all the way to the end of the list yet.

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Being agnostic does not -affect- my day to day life.

Some problems are able to be solved using intuition, others require science. Some are beyond science and intuition, so I don’t have any approach. When it comes to religion, it’s not even something I put any effort towards tackling.

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Think you might have that backwards, for me, anyways. I'm agnostic because I rarely accept BECAUSE I SAY SO for an answer. I've always wanted to know how things work and how people choose what they believe in. I've always been the personification of that nagging voice that asks, "but whyyyyyy?" and will poke and prod until I get an acceptable answer.

This is good reply. One does not have to call yourself anything. However if you do you gather 2 types of people around you . Like think-a-likes and challengers. I suppose it depends if you have a need for either of those.

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Someone once said that we all do science whenever we are careful enough to use the scientific method, or do not make assumptions. If someone thinks of two ways to arrange a shop window, and they say. "Lets try it one way for one week and then the other for the next, and see which gets the most attention." Then that is science at its most basic and pure.

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I tackle problems by researching what has we worked before, so definitely part of the scientific method. With google at our fingertips I see no excuse for not doing basic research.

Any true innovation on the horizon?

@Mcflewster I work in healthcare, so yes, too many to list.

@Emerald Keep up the good work!

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