The Centre Cannot Hold

It’s probably unfair of me to regard many atheists as being in denial. But I don’t think it’s at all unfair to think that many of them (and indeed, a great majority of all people, whatever they may or may not believe) are insufficiently rigourous in their exercise of logic and their application of [...]

As the title suggests, it doesn’t have a lot to do with agnosticism - although it does treat doubt with more courtesy and respect than Dawkins seems capable of. It’s a fascinating read, too, which again scores it above “The God Delusion” - and it has some interesting ideas about both faith and doubt, [...]

So after yesterday’s Blessay, I got to wondering what a chapel designed for the use of agnostics would be like.  Here’s what I came up with:

One of the things about Intelligent Design - one of the ones that its proponents kinda sorta want to cover up, but only when it’s being used against them in debate - is that if you accept the basic hypothesis that the universe is a designed artifact, you can infer certain things about the nature [...]

So I’ve been reading “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins.
Which I’ve got to say, is among the most insulting books I’ve ever read.
Naturally, I speak here as an agnostic - which so far as Dawkins is concerned, makes me a side issue at best. I can only imagine how insulted you’d be by it if [...]

There’s a number of common misconception about many systems of polar opposites.
The most prominent of these is to conceive of all pairs of opposites as purely binary, a philosophical hangover dating back at least as far as Aristotle, and still absurdly prevalent in our culture today - see any discussion of US politics, for example. [...]

It’s been pointed out to me that last week, I failed entirely to actually clarify what I thought the difference was between beliefs and assumptions. So this week, I’m backing up a little to define my terms.
Like I should have done in the first place.

Following on from the general theme of the last few week installments, this week’s Militant Agnostic tackles another of the assumptions that I, as an agnostic, must make.
Now, once we’ve assumed that reality is really real, the logical next thing to do is to look for a way to understand reality.  Fortunately for us all, [...]

Or at least, I do. I think most agnostics would probably agree on that point - indeed, I daresay that not a few of us would add that those four words are pretty much the basis of the scientific method.
But doubt can leave one with little in the way of reliable facts. And [...]

Okay, so last week, I covered how I got here. But I know I didn’t really say where here is.
Understand, I can’t really say what all agnostics believe (or don’t believe) - I can only say what I hold to be true.
On the plus side, this isn’t very much, so this will probably be [...]