Well, you do know that as an agnostic you can have an opinion, don't you? Being an agnostic merely means that you acknowledge that the question is not known. You don't act as if you know. But you can still have an opinion, either way. It's just that in this case, you know its value.Fanman wrote: ↑March 19th, 2018, 3:15 pmI haven't been an agnostic for very long, but in my experience this is not an accurate description of the agnostic position. The reason that I say “I don't know” is simply because I don't. Why should I believe either way when I don't perceive any compelling evidence for God, but am not sure that God doesn't exist? If something cannot be proven or disproved then saying “I don't know” is not unreasonable or illogical. I see no “virtue” in thinking within the spectrum of what I perceive as reason, I just tend to since becoming agnostic – I don't see why I should arrive at a conclusion through speculation of what could be, but what I don't know is. Whether a philosophy is “dark” or “light” is clearly a matter of perspective, if one thinks in those terms. It is a trademark of fundamentalists to believe that they are of the “light” and everyone else (who doesn't agree with or conform to their way of thinking) is of the “dark”.
I claim to be an agnostic because, when considering this question, the first thing I like to do is to assert that (ideally obviously) it cannot be known. As opposed to the position of believers and atheists who act as if they know or even could know.
But I take a "strong" position in favor of "higher powers" existing. I say "strong" because of the totality of all of my life experience and reasoning the question out. In fact, while admitting the question cannot be ordinarily known, I find it an almost absurd position to say that probably there are no other entities in the Universe that are much much greater than humans, simply because we cannot see them. Of course we could not see them, that's hardly even evidence of their non-existence. We could not see them any more than a red blood cell in our bodies could see us. Nonetheless, the Universe makes much more sense to me when I put humans pretty low on the "cosmic totem pole", rather than up closer to the top.