Featured Article Quiz #245
Agnosticism
#1 Which best describes agnosticism according to the text?
A position that questions whether God exists and withholds firm belief or disbelief, often because evidence is unclear.
A position that affirms God’s existence as definitely true.
A position that denies God’s existence as certainly false.
#2 What does psychological (doxastic) agnosticism emphasize?
A mental attitude in which someone has considered God’s existence but chooses not to believe or disbelieve.
The claim that God’s existence is unknowable in principle and therefore belief on either side is impossible to justify.
The view that evidence definitively settles the question, so judgment should not be withheld.
#3 In the strongest philosophical sense mentioned, what can agnosticism mean?
That God’s existence is unknowable.
That God’s existence can be fully proven beyond doubt by human inquiry.
That disbelief in God is the only evidence-based position.