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Originally Posted by john76  The truth is that there may be a God and there may be not, but we have no way of knowing, and no answer on either side is any more likely than the other. Saying that one answer makes more 'sense' to you than the other changes nothing, because the next person could just as likely assert the opposite. The logic of the issue makes either side equally possible. |
As an agnostic, I completely agree with you that, absent substantive information, anyone's belief about the existence of a God is potentially as accurate as anyone else's.
The difference between agnostics and, on the one hand, believers who assert that a supreme being definitely exists and, on the other hand, atheists who assert just as definitely that no supreme being exists, is just as you observe: agnostics remain open to any possibility that hasn't been ruled out through the application of reason and logic. And, until we're confronted with new information that might drive us toward one or the other extreme, we have to be comfortable with saying simply, "I don't know."