How To Be An Agnostic
of the intellect do not pretend that conclusions are certain
which are not demonstrated or demonstrable.Huxley and others like him were passionate men. They brought
their whole person – reason and feeling, learning and experience –
to debates with dogmatists of science and religion alike. Today,
though, the word agnostic has come to mean something both
less engaged and more passive. Its strong sense – the considered
Illus. I.2: T.H. Huxley coined the word agnosticism, and it’s one that has
stuck for describing a mid-position between the certainties of atheism and
theism.