Re: The conflict between Agnostics and Atheists in a knowledge economy

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:
>
> > An  agnostic seems to sit on the fence between the religious concept of god and the atheist who has no god.  <
>
> it's a mistake to generalize: for me (an aggie), the non-existence of
> god is a working hypothesis, while for an atheist, it's a fact.

This won't do either. For someone like me, an atheist by birthright
rather than merit, atheism is simply the framework within which any
question can be asked. Thus for me a proof of the existence of a god
would have to be grounded in the premise that there was no god. It
simply isn't a question that arises for me.

Carrol