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Agnosticism

Is God’s Existence Unknowable

James Hollomon
ILLUMINATION
2 min readJul 30, 2024

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American hardcore punk band, Agnostic Front in concert in Minsk, 2014.
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This article is one of a series of articles introduced by Flawed Reasons to Believe in God. If you’re new to the series, you should read the Introduction before (or after) reading the material below.

I’m an atheist, but I admit some sort of deity may have been the uncaused first cause. It is more probable that the first cause was naturalistic, not supernatural. That is true because all the thousands of God-of-the-Gaps arguments theists have advanced were, when explained, found to be naturalistic. Nothing supernatural has yet been confirmed.

Colloquially speaking, I’m an agnostic atheist. But strictly speaking, an agnostic is someone who asserts that the existence or nonexistence of gods is unknowable. I do not fit that definition, and neither should anyone else. I say that because it is rational to believe that any maximally powerful and all-knowin god could easily demonstrate their existence to anyone they wished to convince. They would know precisely what it would take to accomplish that.

Short of some breakthrough that we can’t imagine today, we will never be able to to prove that no Gods exist.

The non-existence of God seems unknowable. Even if a God exists nearby, we cannot search within black holes. To make matters worse, if we perfect speed-of-light travel, 97% of…

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James Hollomon
James Hollomon

Written by James Hollomon

Majored in Chemistry, designed electronics automation until the industry moved offshore, transitioned to writing & web development. Currently writing Cult.

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