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To: Lane3 who wrote (84092)	9/13/2008 9:46:19 AM
From: biotech_bull	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 544178

Agnostics are way too small a group, just a few percent of the US population, to be as conceptually varied as you claim. I agree if one uses that strict a definition - it probably represents a thin line in the spectrum I mentioned. These folks are true centrists or on the edge of chaos and you can tell them by the fact they will not argue against religious fanatics or atheists <g> These are an almost negligible minority of those who contend that God is unprovable, the broader/conventional definition of agnostics. For example, someone who is not religious, thinks maybe there is a GOd but that is impossible to prove will fall into the agnostic category, I think. If there were proof, belief and non-belief would be a non-issue I personally think that the existence of God is unprovable or unknowable is the weakest argument against belief in God - Science objectively admits to so many fundamentals being unknowable or unprovable

To: Lane3 who wrote (84092)	9/13/2008 3:06:29 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544178

>>Agnostics are way too small a group, just a few percent of the US population, to be as conceptually varied as you claim. <g><< Karen - I see the <g>, but I'm missing the joke, I guess. It's impossible for a mere few million people to have differing views? That looks like satire, but I'm trying to figure out whose view you're satirizing. On a serious note, I wouldn't think you'd need more than three or four agnostics to represent a fairly broad spectrum of thought. - Allen