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The English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley coined the word agnostic in 1869, and said "It simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that which he has no scientific grounds for professing to know or believe."  It is not a cop-out answer to the question: “Don’t you believe anything?”

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agnostic belief is confined to scepticism - digging for answers

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