Religious Glossary - common terms used related to Religion
Agnostic - A person who believes that, at our present
level of knowledge, we cannot know whether or not a God exists.
Some Agnostics believe that we can never know whether a deity
Agnosticism is the philosophical view that the truth values
of certain claims, particularly theological claims regarding
the existence of God, gods or deities, are either unknown
or inherently unknowable. The term and the related agnostic
were coined by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869 and are also used
to describe those who are unconvinced or noncommittal about
the existence of deities as well as other matters of religion.
An Agnostic  [noun] [OW] embraces a worldview in which
the existence of deity is unknown or unknowable. Derives from
the Greek agnostos, a = without, gnostos = known or knowledge.
"Agnostic[ism] [CE] was coined by Professor TH Huxley in 1869
to describe the mental attitude of one who regarded as futile
all attempts to know the reality corresponding to our ultimate
scientific, philosophic, and religious ideas." (AOL)
Agnostic one who believes that the evidence for and against
the existence of God is inconclusive. (summit)