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nothing can convince them otherwise
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Chris Innanen on 01 Oct 08It's not that nothing CAN, but that nothing HAS. They may go on to say that the probability of something convincing them decreases on a continual basis due to mounting evidence that the "a god did it" explanation is not required as our knowledge of the world increases.
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one cannot know for certain if He exists or not
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They are actually of two main camps. One says that it can't be known by anyone. The other says it isn't known by them. Either way, the end result is that their answer to "Is there a god?" is "I don't know." But even agnostics need to choose to live their lives under the assumption that a god (or gods) exist or don't. So agnostics usually fall somewhere between deist and atheist, with the occasional half-hearted theist thrown in.
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The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.
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This oft-quoted passage has two problems... One, while the fool may have said "there is no god", that does not mean that all who say "there is no god" are fools, though those who use the quote usually intend it to mean just that. (If the movie star said "I have cool shades", it does not follow that anyone with cool shades is a movie star.) Two, one has to take the origin of the quote as an authoritative source before the quotation has any weight, and no atheist and many agnostics do not. (The Mason rule that only a Mason can wear their ring doesn't apply to non-Masons so they too can wear the ring.)
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