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Warren Buffett (born 1930): American investor; identified himself as agnostic in response to Warren Allen Smith, who had asked him whether he believed in God [85] Henry Dunant (1828–1910): Swiss businessman and social activist; founder of International Committee of the Red Cross ; in 1901 he received the first Nobel Peace Prize , together ...
Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or unknown in fact. [1] [2] [3] It can also mean an apathy towards such religious belief and refer to personal limitations rather than a worldview.
Agnostic atheism — or atheistic agnosticism — is a philosophical position that encompasses both atheism and agnosticism. Agnostic atheists are atheistic because they do not hold a belief in the existence of any deity, and they are agnostic because they claim that the existence of a divine entity or entities is either unknowable in principle ...
The Sentences of Sextus; The Gospel of Truth; Fragments; Codex XIII: Trimorphic Protennoia; On the Origin of the World; Fragments; The so-called "Codex XIII" is not a codex, but rather the text of Trimorphic Protennoia, written on "eight leaves removed from a thirteenth book in late antiquity and tucked inside the front cover of the sixth ...
Some agnostics, however, are not nontheists but rather agnostic theists. [4] Other related philosophical opinions about the existence of deities are ignosticism and skepticism. Because of the various definitions of the term God , a person could be an atheist in terms of certain conceptions of gods , while remaining agnostic in terms of others.
This category contains articles about people who either actively participated in the formulation of agnostic philosophy, or who openly espouse or practice it. Please limit additions to autoverifiable articles of serious significance.
[15] [20] [18] [21] [22] For example, 72% of American "Nones" believe in God or a higher power [23] [24] and a majority believe in spiritual forces beyond the natural world, and the existence of souls. [25] Even 23% of self-identified atheists believe in a higher power, but not a god as described in the bible. [26]
B. Burt Bacharach; John Bardeen; Joy Behar; Alexander Graham Bell; Tal Ben-Shahar; James Berardinelli; Irving Berlin; Emile Berliner; David Berlinski; Steve Berman