Given the complete lack of evidence for any gods (including the ridiculous tripe in the bible) is it illogical to have a profile that proclaims agnosticism or do you think that agnosticism is a logical construct?
I suspect most of us here have concluded that there are no miracles, which is to say, no suspension of the laws of nature by a personal supernatural being. Absent any evidence for a personal God, that would remove the need for prayer, priests, houses of worship and the existence of practically all religions ever conceived.
The only remaining belief system for the agnostic would seem to be Deism, the belief that a Supreme being, or first cause, created the universe and then left everyone alone to go off and do something else. I am not averse to this belief, as it requires nothing of us: no clergy, no doctrine and most of all, no payments! To quote Thomas Jefferson, “It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
Thanks Tommo, who better to post on polemics.
However, I can't let you aver you're not averse to deism when it "asserts that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficient to establish the existence of a Supreme Being or creator of the universe" quod non.
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Slipping in a scientist's resort to "first cause" cannot absolve you of your sin.
Say three hailstones of solar accretion disc and have an almighty how's your father and be free of this fall from grace known as agnosticism.
The reason for the creation of the term agnostic was to make a "politically correct" word for atheist.
New definitions were added to distinguish "knowing" from "believing"
If you simply don't believe in God that's enough to be an atheist.
If you don't "know" that there's a God then how in the F are you going to believe in that God?
Agnostic is just too complicated and cowardly for me.
Having no reason to believe something is adequate reason to not believe it.
As per the famous old aphorism -- "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence".
I consider myself an atheist but if people are more comfortable saying god can't be disproven well I don't care as long as they don't try to force their view on me or mine. It's their life to waste if they want to.
I have to admit, in some ways I'm also a mild nihilist.
Regarding that phrase "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
In fact, absence of evidence is evidence of absence; it is evidence, but not proof.
Thus, Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence is a fallacy and false.
I'm betting Evangelicals use this phrase in their sermons as part of their demonizing of non-believers.