• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    Looks like I made a small mistake, but it just takes agnostic closer to atheist

    The English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley coined the word agnostic in 1869, and said "It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe

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      8 months ago

      Most agnostics are atheists because the evidence always favors atheism. But there really are a handful of agnostic theists out there!