# Most people are agnostic

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**Created:** [July 17, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-people-are-agnostic/546977 "2010-07-17T00:49:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-people-are-agnostic/546977/2 "2010-07-17T00:55:21Z")

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Atheists \*\*believe \*\*there is no God. That’s not the same as being certain there’s no God.

And agnostics believe that the question of whether there is a God or not is **unanswerable**. That’s considerable stronger than just believing it’s unanswered. Furthermore it’s an epistemological claim, not an ontological one.

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