Flaws of Agnosticism

Agnosticism is defined in Webster’s Comprehensive Dictionary as -

Doctrine of nescience, or the theory which maintains that man can not, and has not, any real or valid knowledge, but can know only impressions.


The theory that the first truths, substance, cause, the human soul, and the first Cause can neither be proved nor disproved, and must remain unknown or unknowable.


The theory that God is unknown or unknowable.


We are also told that the reason for the unknowability is that we being part of the creation, can not know the creator, God.


The reason for all such theories is that the agnostics being in the business of God and Godliness, want people believe that the God exists without providing any proof of the same due to their vested interests. They don’t want people to raise a finger on their right or wrong business practices. The basic question is when the God is unknown and unknowable, how did any body come to know that God exists at all. Any thing unknown and unknowable can neither be imagined nor be given a name, and further nothing can be preached about it.


True, that we don’t yet know everything and are in the process of knowing many more things, but the fact remains that the humanity has existed and progressed on the basis of its ever-growing knowledge-base and nothing in its arena of knowledge is unknown or unknowable to all. Without knowing something, humanity can not proceed further in the matter and drops the subject from its possibilities. In the case of God, the vested interests, for fear of losing business, do not want the people to erase the subject from their minds. Whatever is unknown and unknowable to all the humans nobody has the authority to preach others just to believe. As a natural process, nothing can be believed without knowing about it.


So agnosticism is self-contradictory and no body has the authority to propound a doctrine without himself/herself knowing the subject of the doctrine.