In the popular sense, an agnostic is someone who neither believes nor disbelieves in the existence of a deity or deities, whereas a theist and an atheist believe and disbelieve, respectively.

Many Unitarian Universalists consider themselves humanists, while others hold to Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, natural theist, atheist, agnostic, absurdist, pantheist, pagan, Taoist, and other beliefs.

An agnostic theist believes in the existence of at least one deity, but regards the truth or falsehood of this proposition as unknown or inherently unknowable.

Contemporary Unitarian Universalism espouses a pluralist approach to religious belief, whereby members may describe themselves as atheist, agnostic, deist, monotheist, pantheist, polytheist, pagan, or assume no label at all.

For example, ministers of the Church may follow a traditional Christian belief system, they may follow other world religions, they may blend various faith traditions, or they may be agnostic or atheist.

Brain in a vat. Methodological solipsism may be a sort of weak agnostic ( meaning " missing knowledge ") solipsism.

As such, models of moral universalism may be atheistic or agnostic, deistic ( in the case of several Enlightenment philosophers ), monotheistic ( in the case of the Abrahamic religions ), or polytheistic ( in the case of Hinduism ).

A class of horizontal technology platforms like Lulu, Blurb, Peecho and QooP have chosen to be " author agnostic " and drive POD technology across the chasm, extending from its early adopter writers, to a broad mass-market of ordinary citizens who may want to express, record and print keepsake copies of memories and personal writing ( diaries, travelogues, wedding journals, baby books, family reunion reports etc .).

The second question is metaphysical in the sense that the " unity of conscious perception " may be an idea outside physical science that requires a metaphysical or ontological underpinning, of the sort on which physics is generally agnostic.

This may or may not affect behavior in the applications layer, depending largely on whether the data manipulation language or protocol has changed – but modern applications are written to be agnostic to the database technology so that a change from Sybase, MySQL, DB2 or SQL Server to Oracle should only require a testing cycle to be confident that both functional and non-functional performance has not been adversely affected.

Coloureds with Javanese or other Indonesian ancestry may often be regarded as Cape Malay and are primarily Muslims, while the majority of Coloureds are Christian ( generally Protestant ) or agnostic.

Also, although a number of these groups were historically affiliated to one or other religion or sect, many of their modern members may be agnostic or atheist, or identify more strongly with some other religious or non-religious ideology.

Lakoff has also claimed that we should remain agnostic about whether math is somehow wrapped up with the very nature of the universe.

I was primarily interested in religion because I wanted to go to heaven " but also stated that she considered herself an agnostic.

The language of preprocessor directives is agnostic to the grammar of C, so the C preprocessor can also be used independently to process other kinds of text files.

Within the definition of bright, many, but not all, brights also identify variously under other terms or identities, including atheist, humanist, secular humanist, freethinker, objectivist, rationalist, naturalist, materialist, agnostic, skeptic, apatheist, or even naturalistic pantheists or classical Deists, and so on.

He has also stated that he is an agnostic, although open to the ideas of deism.

Gray denied that investigation of physical causes stood opposed to the theological view and the study of the harmonies between mind and Nature, and thought it " most presumable that an intellectual conception realized in Nature would be realized through natural agencies ".. Thomas Huxley, who strongly promoted Darwin's ideas while campaigning to end the dominance of science by the clergy, coined the term agnostic to describe his position that God's existence is unknowable, and Darwin also took this position, but evolution was also taken up by prominent atheists including Edward Aveling and Ludwig Büchner and it was criticised, in the words of one reviewer, as " tantamount to atheism ".

Alonso's later poetry is also full of agnostic anguish — of a man in search of god, yet fearful of the implications were this God not to exist.

OpenGL ES 2. 0 also is " agnostic " regarding the handedness of the coordinate system, although the default behavior is left handed.

This perception leads her to agnostic positions, not just on traditional philosophical issues such as the nature of physical causation, but also on current social arrangements, such as state education and the monopolistic power of the medical profession, of both of which she is a relentless critic.

The Times also stated that " it is important to say that even an agnostic, even a behaviorist-materialist ... can read this book with joy.

Fegan said that although Darwin had had certainly been an agnostic, he was also " an honourable, courteous, benevolent gentleman.

* Connie ( JoAnn Willette )-the Bohemian, and also occasionally agnostic.

An example of the agnostic view is given by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, who, while participating in a colloquium at Cambridge, denied that the Copenhagen interpretation asserted: " What cannot be observed does not exist.

On his religious views, he was said to be an agnostic.

Despite his admiration and defense for religions like Christianity, he is said to be an agnostic.

In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.

No president has declared himself to be irreligious, agnostic, or atheist.

He is an agnostic, which he claims to be a major determining factor for the story development process, with him drawing parallels between his characters and himself.

As a typical example, a Visual Basic program using a COM object is agnostic towards whether that object was allocated ( and must later be deallocated ) by a C ++ allocator or another Visual Basic component.

Raised in a secular Jewish home, Gould did not formally practice religion and preferred to be called an agnostic.

It could be said that such programs are platform agnostic.

Hacker ( it must be argued, reasonably ) thought the Church of England to be a Christian institution, but Sir Humphrey informed him that most of the Anglican bishops do not believe in God and that a theologian's job is partly to explain why an agnostic or atheist can be a Church leader.

Cunard throughout his personal life was not a religious man and was considered by many to be agnostic.

Shortly after the meeting residents of the town, no longer wishing to honor the agnostic, decided that the name of the town should be changed.

Veblen's house was often a mess, with unmade beds and dirty dishes ; his clothes were often in disarray ; he was an agnostic ; and he tended to be blunt and rude while dealing with other people .< ref > John Kenneth Galbraith, in the Introduction of

Many of his readers interpret him to be a confirmed agnostic.

On Cajal's religious views, he was said to be an agnostic.

OGSA is based on several other Web service technologies, notably WSDL and SOAP, but it aims to be largely agnostic in relation to the transport-level handling of data.

Some scholars take an agnostic view and consider the Mahāyāna sutras as an anonymous literature, since it can not be determined by whom they were written, and only can be dated firmly to the date when they were translated into another language.