(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.
Monotheist
Definition:
(n.) One who believes that there is but one God.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once you accept this, it is quite easy for Hume to show why nothing in what we observe of the world justifies us reaching the conclusion that it was designed by anything like the God of the monotheist religions.
(2) Once any monotheistic religion is starting, feminism is finished.
(3) Yet the conversation Abdul was having with a Ted Cruz supporter named John about the parallels between the monotheistic religions was not what Trump rallies are typically about.
(4) Later this month, the president will visit the homes of the world’s three biggest monotheistic religions – Saudi Arabia, Israel and Rome – on a tour billed as a new beginning in the struggle against extremism, before attending a Nato session in Brussels and a G7 summit in Sicily.
(5) We Christians, together with the other monotheistic religions, believe that the universe is the fruit of a loving decision by the Creator, who permits man respectfully to use creation for the good of his fellow men and for the glory of the Creator; he is not authorized to abuse it, much less to destroy it,” he said.
(6) It was necessary to prepare a sound programme in which the muhajireen might take refuge as their jihad is the result of the glory to Islam and the monotheists.
(7) They are not Christians, they are Yazidis, an ethnically Kurdish people who follow a monotheistic religion all its own.
(8) There could be no bigger deal than to somehow bring together the world’s three great monotheistic religions – and, while he is in the region, slicing through the knots of the 70 years of Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the same time, which he said on Wednesday “ may be not as difficult as people have thought over the years ”.
(9) And the story of Moses has a strange echo in the life of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, the first monotheist known to history.