Atheists & Agnostics
In reply to the discussion: Agnostics are not Atheists and they deserve their own forum. [View all]skepticscott
(13,029 posts)you're a vegetarian. Whether you choose to call yourself one or not, you are. If you attended classes at Penn State for four years and were awarded a Bachelor's degree from there, you're a Penn State alum, whether you identify yourself as such or not. If you don't believe in any gods, you're an atheist, whether you adopt that label or refer to yourself as an atheist or not. And if you say that you don't believe in any gods right now, but are open to the possibility that evidence may one day convince you otherwise, then you've taken a position no different from that of many atheists.
In any case, to attribute arrogant certainty to atheists while claiming to be free of it yourself is just well concealed intellectual dishonesty. Are you an agnostic about Zeus? Baal? Quetzalcoatl? Xenu? Santa Claus? The Tooth Fairy? Or are you as sure as you're likely to be about anything that one or more of those simply doesn't exist in the real world?
And this condescending little fellow ought to read a little more deeply of the subject of something from nothing before he displays such arrogance. Atheists don't have "faith" that science will eventually solve this problem. We simply see no reason to resort to either "gawddidit" or "we don't know now so we never will". We'll simply wait, in good skeptical fashion, for evidence before making up our minds, rather than wearing our ignorance as a badge of honor.