At 8/17/09 07:19 PM, Snake-Arsenic wrote:
You're saying atheists cling to science like religion and when an atheist admits there is no way of knowing for sure that god doesn't exist you call them agnostic, even though scientifically there is no way to be sure god doesn't exist.
You're quite the ignorant one, aren't you? Being Agnostic means you're not sure whether or not a god(s) exist. Atheism (which the OP spelled wrong, btw) is the belief that there is no god. If you know an Atheist who clings to science like a religion, then good for you. The rest of us Atheists who don't need a crutch use science as a meas to explain. Like, "Here, I know this exists/hppens because .... explains it/makes it hapen, so ... made it happen/created it, not god." If you honestly think Atheists use science like a religion you deserve to be hanged, drawn and quartered for being so ignorant. In any case or such extreme ignorance, really.
In the view your pushing there's no room to be an atheist so you are really arguing against your own idea of what an agnostic is while re-branding it as atheism.
Agnostic - Not sure and needs proof/doesn't care
Atheist - Doesn't believe
Not hard to comprehend, where's the issue?