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Originally Posted by Silence Dogood [are you] are completely devoid of faith? | ....I have a great amount of faith in things that have been supported by science or other logical systems, as well as in things that I've personally observed to be congruent and consistent over time.
I am, however, completely devoid of the kind of faith that requires me to abandon logic and reason and embrace some or other belief system simply because it's convenient or because I have personal reasons for wanting to believe in it. |
Skepticologist, you're a genius!
I would also say that Agnosticism is a fundamentally scientific belief system. Science, by it's very definition, does not accept anything to be true without experimental evidence. Even what is a "scientific fact" is actually not provable -- science makes no assertions, other than what is asserted may only be disproved, never proven. For example, newtonian physics used to be a great idea, and many people still use it today because it is relatively simple and still accurate in everyday life situations. But it was disproved by Einstein.
So how can Science be wrong if it technically doesn't make any assertions to begin with? The same goes for agnosticism. You could say that agnostics assert that "we don't know", but I would say that is not an assertion, that is the opposite of an assertion.