Agnosticism is the philosophical or religious view that the
truth value of certain claims — particularly claims regarding
the existence of God, gods, deities, ultimate reality or
afterlife — is unknown or, depending on the form of agnosticism,
inherently unknowable due to the subjective nature of
experience. Agnostics claim either that it is not possible to
have absolute or certain knowledge of the existence or
nonexistence of God or gods; or, alternatively, posit that while
certainty may be possible for some, they personally have not
come into possession of this knowledge. Agnosticism in both
cases involves some form of skepticism. Agnosticism is not
necessarily without a belief in God or gods. Rather, its belief
is that the existence of God or gods is unknowable. It is
important to note that, contrary to the more popular
understanding of agnosticism merely as an agnostic attitude
towards the divine, agnosticism is in fact quite a constructive
project in two ways. First, as understood originally by Thomas
Hu