--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 04:49:54AM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > > > So agnostics are just as willing to find out if God exists as they are > > to find out that God does not exist? > > That is pretty much the definition, I thought.
In practice, I think that many, if not most, agnostics are simply "honest atheists." Since true atheism would require a matter of faith - since a negative cannot be proved, many people who might casually be thought of as "atheists" tend to self-characterize themselves as "agnostic." As such, I think a great many of self- described agnostics strongly "lean" atheist. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
