John Searle - Arguments for Agnosticism?

Agnostics do not know whether or not God exists. Theists surmise their reprobates. Atheists suppose they're cowards. Are there different kinds of agnostics?

[zatoichiable]

in an imperfect world, a perfect God is everybodys longing.

[AMilitantAgnostic]

"Very ambitious hypothesis" and "very little reason to suppose that it's true" claims, beliefs, asserting probabilities, or even preponderance all need scientific grounds. This is where the Agnostic separates from the Atheist. The Agnostic simply admits and accepts they are hopelessly ignorant, the theist and Atheist however both seem comfortable trying to magically justify some certainty, probability, or preponderance.
I don't know, and neither do you.

[matthewgrant]

As an agnostic, there is no "holy" book that should dictate to us how to live our lives

[mariachlin]

It is hard because we do not like to admit that we do not know. We are too proud to be humble.

[HurricaneOG]

Searle is just being honest. I am a deist and i believe deism and agnosticism are the most logical stances you can have, with agnosticism being even more logical. His philosophy of mind books are worth a read, I like Searle over others in philosophy of mind. By far the most rational

[dreyestud]

I think the claim that there is a "pink" rhinoceros is weaker because if the rhino were invisible how in the world would you know it was pink?

[dalboro]

As I said in a previous John Searle video, John Searle kicks ass!!

[kyivstuff]

Is the miraculous organization of this universe not enough evidence to believe in some creative Power? I’m not talking about an anthropomorphic God. But the Power that is the creator, the rules of creation and the matter of creation is a marvelous theory. Atheism didn’t arise in vacuum, it arises after religion already made its claim. So it can’t be a simple “negative”, it by its nature must be an affirmative claim that asserts the non-existence. So if theist argues that there is God, and the evidence of His existence is the fact that universe exists and has organization, then to be absolutely certain in this affirmative claim of non-existence atheist has to disprove the first claim. This cannot be done. That is why atheism is a form of belief not knowledge. In my opinion, Agnosticism is the rational way to deal with religion.

[yashaisreal]

Knowledge vs Belief people! Believing is easy, anyone can have faith. The difficulty is justifying these beliefs as knowledge. Everytime someone have miraculous experience he/she can't explain, it's automatically assumed with belief of an interfering god.

[captainandthelady]

This man makes a lot sense...thumbs up.

[paulmillbank]

I don’t want to believe life exists after death. If life exists after death then I have the evidence I require, but while I live I refuse to accept on faith that there’s anything more than this exists and I’m perfectly content saying I don’t know.

[YitroBenAvraham]

Why do all these smart men use the fact that there is suffering in the world as proof that there is no God? Very strange.

[lukeabbott]

He's a smart man to be sure, but the fact that he mentions Darwinism as a stumbling block to theism (as if the biological intelligent design argument was the only relevant argument for the existence of God) suggests to me that he probably hasn't studied the arguments for God's existence in depth. And neither did Bertrand Russell, by the way.

[thehugeilmemerdiyoutube]

I'm agnostic too, and I think that if there's is a God is more likely something that is the union of all the universe nature and of all the life forms (so someyhing similar to pantheism/pandeism or stoicisim idea of God ) , and far beyond the known universe itself, so that I could really define it trascendence (and so over my coscience) and like Kant said the most philosophical idea, because it's the union of every possibility of thought

[matthewtenney]

No one knows whether God exists or not but we have to either assume God exists or that He doesn't in order to live our lives. What is our purpose in life? How do we make moral decisions? If God is not central to those questions in our lives, then we have rejected God no matter what we call ourselves.

[mosesexodus]

1:11 "Matter cannot exist without physical laws and constants first existing. Physical laws and constants cannot exist without mind / consciousness / intelligence first existing. Mind / consciousness / intelligence is Prime. Mind exists before Matter."

[firstal]

I an agnostic. But Imliked his arguments here. I am not a huge fan of Searle but he is pretty good nonetheless. I like his way of soeaking, a very authoritative old style philosopher. It I said pleasing to listen.

[irdcity]

I LOVE this video, but I disagree with the first point made. I think you CAN prove a universal negative

[arthurwieczorek]

You can't prove a negative. Can you find a thesis unintelligible? Is an unintelligible thesis wrong? What is the difference between, 'There is no God', and 'God is an unintelligible thesis' ?

[YitroBenAvraham]

I'm kinda stunned at how poor some of the arguments are, here.