To: sodpoodle; metmom; Dr. Eckleburg
agnostics... Just today I read that the word was invented by Aldous Huxley. He and others gave financial support to Charles Darwin with the express purpose of creating a new humanist religion.
36 posted on
12/28/2006 5:36:36 PM PST by
1000 silverlings
(stand up, stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the Cross)
To: 1000 silverlings
Seriously, why do you care?
37 posted on
12/28/2006 5:37:56 PM PST by
ShadowDancer
(No autopsy, no foul.)
To: 1000 silverlings
If Huxley coined the word, he borrowed it from the Greeks
Main Entry: 1ag·nos·tic
Pronunciation: ag-'näs-tik, &g-
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek agnOstos unknown, unknowable, from a- + gnOstos known, from gignOskein to know -- more at KNOW
1 : a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of God or a god- Merriam Webster
No-one has a monopoly on the use of a noun or verb.
Keep searching your Wikipedia.
44 posted on
12/28/2006 5:47:35 PM PST by
sodpoodle
(if you can't handle the truth, try satire.)
To: 1000 silverlings
Just today I read that the word was invented by Aldous Huxley. Nope.
It was Thomas Henry Huxley, Aldous' grandfather.
108 posted on
12/31/2006 2:18:05 AM PST by
dread78645
(Evolution. A doomed theory since 1859.)
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