What is Agnosticism
Agnosticism is believing that either the knowledge of the existence or the knowledge of the non-existence of God is impossible. Often times, it is put forth as a middle ground between a faith and belief in the existence of a God and atheism, or the position that there is no God. Understood as the middle way, agnosticism is a skepticism about all things theological. Agnostics hold that human knowledge is limited to the natural world, and that the mind, on this earth is incapable of knowing or understanding the supernatural. An agnostic could lean more toward being an theist or an atheist. The former is called a fideist, one who believes in God purely on faith. The agnostic atheist simply finds no compelling reason to believe in God.
The term ‘agnostic’ was coined by T. H. Huxley (1825-1895), as a reaction to his fellow thinkers David Hume and Immanuel Kant. Huxley sad that he invented the term to describe what he thought made him unique among his fellow thinkers.
