Comments on: Agnosticism vs. Deism/Theism vs. Atheism http://izbedda.com/2007/12/19/agnosticism-vs-deismtheism-vs-atheism/ where good things happen Sun, 20 May 2012 18:59:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Profile Backlinks http://izbedda.com/2007/12/19/agnosticism-vs-deismtheism-vs-atheism/#comment-5353 Profile Backlinks Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:43:37 +0000 http://izbedda.com/2007/12/19/agnosticism-vs-deismtheism-vs-atheism/#comment-5353 hello there. looks like a nice article to me. bookmarking it and will read for sure. hello there. looks like a nice article to me. bookmarking it and will read for sure.

]]> By: John S. Wilkins http://izbedda.com/2007/12/19/agnosticism-vs-deismtheism-vs-atheism/#comment-24 John S. Wilkins Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:56:56 +0000 http://izbedda.com/2007/12/19/agnosticism-vs-deismtheism-vs-atheism/#comment-24 It's not merely caution that leads to agnosticism, but also a failure of epistemology. For instance, as I keep saying, I am not agnostic about any religious claim that can be shown to be false using scientific methods. I am not agnostic about any claim that can be shown to be true, either. But for a certain class of belief claims, no argument will decide either way, and for those I am agnostic. I think that the strategic safety lies in <i>apatheism</i>: the view that it really doesn't matter. Hence, I am an apathetic agnostic, etymologically: don't know, don't care. It’s not merely caution that leads to agnosticism, but also a failure of epistemology. For instance, as I keep saying, I am not agnostic about any religious claim that can be shown to be false using scientific methods. I am not agnostic about any claim that can be shown to be true, either. But for a certain class of belief claims, no argument will decide either way, and for those I am agnostic.

I think that the strategic safety lies in apatheism: the view that it really doesn’t matter. Hence, I am an apathetic agnostic, etymologically: don’t know, don’t care.

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