Sentence examples for agnostic position from inspiring English sources

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Dr. Cook-Bolden took a more agnostic position.

He went to Sunday school as a child, gave up and became an atheist before finding his present agnostic position.

"It wasn't intentional, but  both Immigrant Diaries and my stand-up show, Shallow Halal  – in which I talk about my agnostic position on the Muslim faith – have ended up being about the biggest issues of the moment.

If we cannot eliminate this as a real possibility, shouldn't we hold a merely agnostic position on Zeus and the other Greek gods, taking seriously the possibility that they existed but holding that we have good reason neither to assert nor deny their existence?

From an agnostic position, I have become convinced that it plays a very important part, and those of us, believers or nonbelievers, who wish this were not the case have our work cut out getting people to change their minds, or, as my parable last week suggested, perhaps getting them to see that they don't know what really matters to them.

Executives took a while to work out their complicated feelings about the iPod, which only succeeded because Apple adopted an agnostic position on content: plenty of buyers filled their new devices with ripped versions of old CDs, or gray-market mixtapes and podcasts and remixes, or pirated full-length albums, which only grew easier to find online.

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The antirealism of the position is due entirely to its epistemology it recommends belief in our best theories only insofar as they describe observable phenomena, and an agnostic attitude with respect to anything unobservable.

The number of students opting for the agnostic-evolutionist position is perhaps an indication that it is not easy to reconcile the two explanations.

Since science (including the theory of evolution) deals only with natural causes, those who choose this response are, in our estimation, closer to the Young Earth and Old Earth Creationist positions than to the Agnostic or Atheistic positions.

Or we can take a variety of agnostic or doubting positions.

Consequently, some atheist authors such as Richard Dawkins prefer distinguishing theist, agnostic and atheist positions along a spectrum of theistic probability the likelihood that each assigns to the statement "God exists".

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