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O.T - Religion & Climbing 10-Dec-2009 At 10:09:26 PM Brazened

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From dictionary.com

Agnostic

1. a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the
essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is
limited to experience.

2. a person who denies or doubts the possibility of ultimate knowledge in some area of
study.

Atheist

a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Agnostic

1 : a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and
probably unknowable; broadly : one who is not committed to believing in either the
existence or the nonexistence of God or a god

2 : a person unwilling to commit to an opinion about something

Atheist

: one who believes that there is no deity

Atheism

a : a disbelief in the existence of deity
b : the doctrine that there is no deity

Hmmm what to believe, religinisbullshit.com or dictionarys? :)
There does seem to be a difference between Agnostic and Atheist.

Also interesting reading is the Standard Encyclopedia of Philosophy's paper on beliefs.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/belief/