Word: agnosticism
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His third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. But not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal...
Boslough describes himself as "totally agnostic" on the existence of antipodal volcanism. J.P.L.'s Kevin Baines, however, isn't neutral when it comes to the NASA team's sulfuric acid theory. "If the asteroid had struck almost any other place on earth, it wouldn't have generated this tremendous amount...
Excruciating pain with its soul-killing, humanity-stripping properties is capable of turning one into a purely sentient creature, devoid of humanity. Its urgency forces the agnostic to remember long-forgotten prayers.
A doctor in his late 30s, near the top in his field, despairs of the future. "I was a believer until the late 1980s. Now I am agnostic," he says. His home in the suburbs of Havana is comfortable by comparison with those of most Cubans: the prerevolutionary furniture is...
Mack himself comes from a skeptical, agnostic family background, he says. A child psychiatrist, he attended Oberlin College and Harvard Medical School and was trained in psychoanalysis at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute.