2. Thomas Henry Huxley(1825-1895)
Born on May 4, 1825
(Ealing, Middlesex)
Died on June 29, 1895
(Eastbourne, Sussex)
Education: Self-Taught (10 years old)
Formal Education (16 years old)
at Sydenham College and Charing Cross
Hospital
Religious Views: Agnostic
3. Lecture Proper: Agnosticism
The term itself was coined by Thomas Henry Huxley,
a biologist and a philosopher of science.
Etymologically speaking, Agnosticism means a “not”
or “without” and gnosis “knowledge.”
An Agnostic is one who claims that, by the light of
human reason alone, we cannot know for certain
anything about God.
“Wala tayong tiyak na kaalaman tungkol sa Diyos sa
pamamagitan ng katuwiran”
4. Lecture Proper: Agnosticism(cont.)
Huxley said that we can never know anything about
the ultimate origin or ultimate nature of the
universe.
Speculation about such matters is fruitless, for they
lie outside the limits of philosophical inquiry.
Both materialism and creationism are ruled out in
Huxley’s brand of agnosticism
5. How Agnosticism differ from Atheism?
Agnosticism is an intellectual position, a statement
about the existence or nonexistence of the deity
and our ability to know it with certainty.
Atheism is a behavioral position, a statement about
what assumptions we make about the world in which
we behave.
