[deccan]

Originally posted by Loser:
Whatever my thoughts on the afterlife might be, that isn't actually logic. Absence of any evidence means nothing, logically.

To believe something you do not have any evidence to support is not reason, it is faith. That is the difference between an atheist and an agnostic.

Not quite. While that's true in principle, in practice whenever there's an absence of evidence concerning the existence of something, people, quite reasonably I believe, go about life assuming that it doesn't exist.

Imagine, I could say claim that a pink, invisible, intangible unicorn is looking over your shoulder right now as you read this. I think that trying to be "agnostic" about it would be kind of difficult.