(a.) Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.
(n.) One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The same thing seems to be going on here, with the agnostics the group likely to swing the vote, depending on which side they find less satisfactory on the day.
(2) By 1969, when Arthur Jensen advocated this view in his controversial article (45), most geneticists who spoke publicly on the issue had adopted an agnostic position.
(3) Citron suggested a few solutions , including making sure that laws are technology and platform agnostic; allowing prosecutors to present to judges and juries a totality of the abuse; and increasing penalties for those convicted.
(4) Rics has said it is "agnostic" about which measure of prices is used.
(5) This environment therefore makes many North Koreans agnostic, but some of course conduct religious activities behind closed doors, often however with serious consequences.
(6) All that May has to offer is symbols, but symbols are a more powerful currency with true believers than is ever understood by agnostics.
(7) I am an agnostic who has decided to vote yes, and what I want to do here is describe some of the factors that prompted me to that decision.
(8) Furthermore a non-contradictory answer to the present questions only appears consistent with the "agnostic" method, whose formal implications are explained very shortly.
(9) Labor and the Greens will continue to oppose the repeal of the scheme they created when Julia Gillard was prime minister, but from July the government will have the support of the Liberal Democratic party’s David Leyonhjelm , who after the election told Guardian Australia he was “agnostic” about the science of global warming but “even if it is eventually confirmed, government spending in Australia will not make the slightest bit of difference”.
(10) "Thousands would have had their lives permanently damaged, disfigured or otherwise, whether they were Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, agnostic or atheist."
(11) "Zeitgeist" has been since the french revolution and still is agnostic, secularized and materialistic--also in the scholastic medical sciences: Presence and action of gods supernatural forces in all nature, including disease processes and healing has not been and is not recognized.
(12) But I learned something – when the flames start coming towards you everyone starts praying, even the atheists and the agnostics, but when the flames start fading away we all go back to the structures and beliefs that we had before.” For Baez, the Hanoi experience made her even more determinedly radical than she had been.
(13) The second change, from the agnostic view to the belief that wide race crosses were at worst biologically harmless, took place during and shortly after World War II.
(14) Their 2015 data shows that 3% of Americans identify as atheist (as well as 4% who say they’re agnostic and 16% who say they’re nothing in particular).
(15) The sample was almost entirely Caucasian, disproportionately concentrated in higher education and income categories, and 49% reported they were either athiest or agnostic.
(16) As well, the data is agnostic on the validity of the named targets struck on multiple occasions being marked for death in the first place.
(17) Labour has remained pro-EU ever since, its gone-native MEPs often more integrationist than agnostics at home.
(18) The Liberal Democratic party's David Leyonhjelm , set to win a Senate seat in NSW, told Guardian Australia he was "agnostic" about the science of global warming but "even if it is eventually confirmed government spending in Australia will not make the slightest bit of difference".
(19) But it reflects one simple truth: the Earth's atmosphere is agnostic about who emits.
(20) Thus it becomes evident that there is epistemologically a fundamental difference between the so-called gnostic and the agnostic standpoint, between the psychoanalytical and the phenomenological approach.
Atheist
Definition:
(n.) One who disbelieves or denies the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.
(n.) A godless person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
(2) The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life.
(3) My views almost six years ago would be considered by the Australian government as extreme and myself an Islamic extremist, although I was still an Atheist, a little confusing I know,” he wrote.
(4) Expressing the belief that it was important for Christians to engage in "a sincere and rigorous dialogue" with atheists, Francis recalled Scalfari had asked him whether God forgave those "who do not believe and do not seek to believe".
(5) Ultimately, it suggests the question: had he actually been Muslim, or instead been Hindu, Jewish or atheist, would he be any less American?
(6) Even Roberts couldn't dictate terms to the almighty, which may have been why he was an atheist.
(7) Eight members of the banned Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), including a senior cleric who is said to have founded the Islamist group, were convicted late last year for the murder of atheist blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider in February 2013.
(8) Now I’ve found some of my favourite comedy here: the anarchic young sketch groups, Stewart Lee’s Top Gear bit, James Acaster’s bit on apricots and Daniel Sloss’s unapologetically dark atheist stuff spring to mind.
(9) Atheist offenders will have their beliefs challenged too, by those who say Muslims are a persecuted minority who deserve protection from the dominant culture.
(10) No it's not, says atheist "pastor" Sanderson Jones .
(11) Rome: Open City stars Fabrizi as a priest, Don Pietro, who aids the Italian opposition and forms a close bond with an atheist, communist resistor.
(12) In Omaha, Nebraska, several atheist and humanist groups planned to visit the local Islamic Center on Saturday to express their support .
(13) Whatever delusion turns you on just don't expect me (an atheist) to go along with it.
(14) I think it's in Kansas, you'll have to fact check that, that they're not teaching evolution theory anymore, and apparently there was an online poll of English teachers, British teachers and it was something like 60% thought it should be taught alongside creationism, which for me is really shocking, but... Like I say, I don't think it is a film about atheism, but for me, as an atheist, to have a viable alternative is incredibly important.
(15) The figures neatly reverse the proportions among those who identify as religious, only 5% of whom are convinced atheists.
(16) A moral framework provided by religious belief is also likely to influence behaviour, with atheists more likely to keep the money than those who associate with a religion.
(17) More importantly still, this is only one view, and most atheistic outlooks contain no such consolations.
(18) With the use of computer graphics, the film portrays the sweep of Balkan history as a prolonged expropriation of inherently “Muslim lands”, first by “crusaders”, then atheistic communists, and finally nationalists.
(19) American sceptics, atheists, scientists and science educators are engaged in numerous battles.
(20) Speaking to Eugenio Scalfari, a co-founder of the Italian daily newspaper and an atheist, who exchanged letters with Francis over the summer, the Argentinian pope said he agreed it would be difficult to reform the Vatican .