Am I an Agnostic? What kind...? Before recently, I leaned atheist for the past few years of my life. But a little studies in the philosophy of logic has me gravitating towards agnosticism. So what kind of agnostic am I (if I am one at all...) if I deny 100% the existence of all the gods, both dead and alive, that human cultures have invented, yet I remain agnostic towards the general idea of a God who may have been the force behind the point of singularity (Big Bang), and hence the existence of the universe ultimately?
I get confused when one time I read that agnosticism is really about the existence of God being "unknowable," and then I read that agnostics can be atheistic about some gods. It seems more reasonable to me that God is not so much "unknowable" as it is that our methods for detecting him are still so primitive. Isn't it more likely that we just don't have the technology and know-how to detect a God if he exists, rather than to say that he's "unknowable"? What does that mean exactly? At one point in time, humans didn't know about evolution and the Big Bang, but eventually time and its corresponding advances in knowledge enlightened our understanding. Maybe some day it will enlighten our understanding about God, or show us that God never existed... |