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Agnosticism
Is God’s Existence Unknowable
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…