I rather resent the implication that Agnosticism is "weasely" -- I personally think it the more scientific and rational belief than Atheism. I understand that this may ruffle feathers, but I am not trying to claim Atheism ignores physical laws, as some have claimed about Agnosticism.
There is absolutely nothing about an Agnostic philosophy thats says that we
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try to find out what does really exist. I find out why "Life" seems to work and I try to understand how life could have come into existence based on the Physical laws that I know are true. (Provable Physical Laws!)
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As a matter of fact, this is exactly what I try to do as an Agnostic. I honestly favor the idea that there isn't a God above there being one, but I do not take the poor scientists' approach that Atheism would purpose. No one can dispute that without a supernatural extension of our scientific abilities, there will always be a
possibility that God exists. Rather than say "well it cannot be proven with current Science, he must not exist" as Atheism would say, I can be the true skeptic: there is a possibility of his existence! They can abstain from making a conclusion until better concrete evidence is presented. Theism and Atheism both seem a bit fanatical, then, because they seek to reach a concrete conclusion in the absense of finite evidence.
This would be akin to a scientist seeing a new microbe under the microscope. The Theistic scientist could claim that it was a supernatural microbe capable of ruling the universe (irrational, I know).. and the Atheist could claim that it looks like X, it moves like X, it must be X. After expending all their energy doing scientific study and analysis the Atheist could "conclusively" decide and defend that it was X, undoubtedly. However, the Agnostic would be able to say that "given what we know now, it's probably X." In order for Atheists to be correct, it HAS to be X (the non-existance of God) or they are without doubt incorrect.
IN short: everything is relative. For a Theistic person, the relativism does not matter because God exists in spite of natural laws. For an Atheistic person, a God does not exist, because of natural laws. For an Agnostic -- both assumptions can be correct, dependant on the relative viewpoint of the observer.