DaveSimmons
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here's wiki:Originally posted by: Aisengard
I always thought that if you weren't sure there is a God, or don't care, you're an agnostic. And to be an atheist, you had to have faith that there was not a God, because there's no proof there isn't. I think that to say there is no god because there is no proof is something different than being atheist.
"Atheism is the state either of being without theistic beliefs, or of actively disbelieving in the existence of deities"
"Agnosticism is the philosophical view that the truth values of certain claims, particularly theological claims regarding the existence of God, gods or deities, are either unknown or inherently unknowable."
An agnostic will say "I have no idea", while an atheist "knows" there is no Flying Spaghetti Monster even though science can't disprove His noodly appendages.