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briandmyers  ·  4429 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The God Hypothesis - The Advanced Apes

Fair enough, I misspoke. I should have said "a need to assign the possibility of a creator to the beginning of things".

As an agnostic, you don't necessarily believe in a creator, but you do want to preserve the possibility of a creator, in spite of there being no evidence for it (by saying "I don't know"). That's the difference between agnosticism and atheism in a nutshell, in my opinion.

My entire point here is that you want that possibility for a creator, but you don't seem to require it for other, similar phenomena. For example, many people report seeing and talking to people who have died, in their dreams. This is (slim) evidence for ghosts, or at least life after death; and of a kind with all evidence for god. So why agnostic about only god? What is different about that idea? And you have provided some of your feelings in this regard already - "the system is a little too perfect".