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am_Unition  ·  3558 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Carl Sagan on The Relationship Between Science and Religion atheist.

I found that last word, "atheist", tacked on hastily to the end of the video title, all too fitting.

Sagan was an agnostic. Many people, including the dudes in my gym's dry sauna last week, seem to think that agnosticism loosely equates to theism. Nay.

Agnostics profess mankind's inability to definitively know whether or not a divine deity exists (or multiple deities, whatever). Now, unless there was a major press release today that I've missed, this seems the most scientifically informed stance to take.

We can talk about who has the burden of proof for proving or disproving the existence of the divine, or we can stop pointing fingers, and get back to doing whatever gives us the warm and fuzzies. Unless it's the Crusades. Or ISIS. Or moderating /r/atheism.