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To: PatrickHenry
And thus Atheism and Agnosticism do overlap to a great extent.
60 posted on 04/14/2002 2:32:15 PM PDT by BMCDA
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To: BMCDA
And thus Atheism and Agnosticism do overlap to a great extent.

Yes, in my opinion. Neither is a theist. Where they differ is in the emphasis they place on the burden of proof. The atheist might critize the agnostic thusly: "Why do you even consider the possibility of X when there's no reason to do so? If you are open to the existence of X (with utterly no evidence for X) then why not UFOs, ghosts, etc.?" So the atheist would view the agnostic as incapable of deciding when there's nothing to decide. I don't know if I'm explaining this well at all.

66 posted on 04/14/2002 2:40:22 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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