Atheism, Agnosticism and er....Ignosticism

My Take:

Richard Dawkins classifies people's beliefs in God into the following categories:

a) Strong theist. 100 per cent probability of God Very high probability but short of 100 per cent. De facto theist.
b) Higher than 50 per cent but not very high. Technically agnostic but leaning towards theism.
c) Exactly 50 per cent. Completely impartial agnostic.
d) Lower than 50 per cent but not very low. Technically agnostic but leaning towards atheism.
e) Very low probability, but short of zero. De facto atheist.
f) Strong atheist. 'I know there is no God.'

I'm not going to tell you which category i belong to:-)

Referenced

· Strong agnosticism (also called "hard agnosticism," "closed agnosticism," "strict agnosticism," or "absolute agnosticism") refers the view that the question of the existence or nonexistence of God or gods and the nature of ultimate reality is unknowable by reason of our natural inability to verify any experience with anything but another subjective experience. A strong agnostic would say, "I don't know whether God exists or not, and neither do you."

· Weak agnosticism (also called soft agnosticism, open agnosticism, empirical agnosticism, temporal agnosticism)—the view that the existence or nonexistence of any deity is currently unknown but is not necessarily unknowable, therefore one will withhold judgment until/if more evidence is available. A weak agnostic would say, "I don't know whether God exists or not, but maybe you do."

· Apathetic agnosticism (also called Pragmatic agnosticism)—the view that there is no proof of either the existence or nonexistence of any deity, but since any deity that may exist appears unconcerned for the universe or the welfare of its inhabitants, the question is largely academic anyway.

· Agnostic theism (also called religious agnosticism)—the view of those who do not claim to know existence of any deity, but still believe in such an existence.

· Agnostic atheism—the view of those who do not know of the existence or nonexistence of a deity, and do not believe in any.

· Ignosticism—the view that a coherent definition of God must be put forward before the question of the existence of God can be meaningfully discussed. If the chosen definition isn't coherent, the ignostic holds the noncognitivist view that the existence of God is meaningless or empirically untestable. A.J. Ayer, Theodore Drange, and other philosophers see both atheism and agnosticism as incompatible with ignosticism on the grounds that atheism and agnosticism accept "God exists" as a meaningful proposition which can be argued for or against.