Atheist and Agnostic
Who said "You [Agnostics in general] claim that nothing can be known with certainty ... how, then, can you be so sure?"
Religious scholar, Laurence B. Brown
Who said "I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden."?
Richard Dawkins
Greek Philosopher Protagoras
was the intellectual father of Agnosticism and wrote an essay "On the Gods"
What Greek word did the word "atheist" originate from?
ἄθεος (atheos, which means "without god/s").
What is a deity?
A God or goddess.
What are the major difference es between agnosticism and Atheism?
Agnosticism is a middle ground between belief in religion and Atheism.
Who drives Pi (the main character of our book) crazy? Agnostics or atheists?
Agnostics since Pi says "It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics."
Why is agnosticism criticized?
Some religious thinkers see agnosticism as limiting the mind's capacity to know reality to materialism.
Who said "To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as means of transportation"?
The character Pi, from the book "Life of Pi".
Why do theistic critics claim that agnosticism is impossible in practice?
They believe that a person can live only either as if God did not exist (etsi deus non-daretur), or as if God did exist (etsi deus daretur).
What are is the major similarities between agnosticism and Atheism?
They both lack belief in the presence of the divine.
Who was the first person to coin the term "agnostic" in 1869, even though there were earlier written works promoting agnostic views?
Thomas Henry Huxley.
Steven Hawking
Who said "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark," in The Grand Design?
Diagoras of Melos
Who was the atheist in 5th century B.C Greece, who cut down a wooden statue of Hercules to roast some lentils?
T.H. Huxley
Who wrote the book "Agnosticism and Christianity"?
What does agnostic mean in Greek?
Without (a) knowledge (gnostic).
What is atheism?
belief that no God exists.
What is agnosticism?
believes the existence and nature of God are not known or God is unknowable
