You cannot know, because it would be out of reach of the human ability to understand.
Not because the claim can never be scientifically proven or disproven.
It is comments such as those:
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Atheist's don't say there is no chance that a deity could exist, they just believe it just as unlikely as a number of random claims. Atheists don't really have a belief on the issue as such, since its a non-issue. Are you atheist to the idea of purple unicorns?
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An agnostic doesn't claim that it is unknowable that God exists, they just claim that right now it is not demonstrable that God exists, therefore we can not "pretend these conclusions are certain." Therefore they do not claim either way that it is certain that God exists, or it is certain that he doesn't.
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All agnosticism is, is normal, logical reasoning, that we should only treat things with certainty when things are demonstrable with proof
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What I'm saying is that agnosticism is barely even a perspective since its almost universal.
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Agnostic atheists are atheistic because they do not have belief in the existence of any deity, and agnostic because they do not claim to know that a deity does not exist. Ask any atheist if truly, he knows that the Flying Spaghetti Monster isn't real. Yet since there is no evidence to suggest there is they don't have a belief in it.
I am an agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden.
—Richard Dawkins
A lot of people would say we can't really know anything, so in essence we should all be agnostic in relation to everything to some extent. It's just a matter of using sound reason. No evidence to suggest it, so reason to believe yet we obviously don't actually know, as we know much
that people disagree with. And that I think Huxley would disagree with.
You continuously refer to a specific deity. But that just misses the point.
The very concept of god is not seen as it has been written in the bible or
any other scriptures, but as 'impossible to comprehend'.
So it is not a universal perspective of logic and reasoning, but claims that
if a god, any 'god' or higher power, were to exist, it would be beyond logic.