define agnostic behavior?

Answer 1

Someone how believes in a higher power but does believe that higher power is God.

Answer 2

It means simply that the answer to some question is unknown.

This could be for one of three reasons:
- Incomplete information. (I.e. it allows for the possibility that more information might answer the question in the future).
- An unanswerable question. (I.e. the question makes sense, but *by definition* there can be no answer.)
- An incoherent question. (I.e. the question makes no sense.)

The question can be anything. E.g. some companies or software say they are 'operating system agnostic', meaning that they don't have a preference between Windows, MacOS, or Unix.

But the term usually refers to the question of whether there is a God. There are people who say they are agnostics for any of the above three reasons.

Since you're asking this in a science section (Biology), I assume you're asking about what agnostic behavior means w.r.t. science:

Science itself is agnostic on the question of God. This is something that anti-science people often misunderstand ... science is *not* atheistic ... it does *not* claim that God does not exist. Science says simply that the question of God is outside the domain of questions that it can answer. I.e. that the question of God is scientifically "unanswerable." God can neither be proven nor disproven.

Now, individual scientists may have an opinion one way or the other. They are, after all, human beings. There are scientists who are convinced athiests, and other scientists who are quite religious (e.g., both Darwin and Einstein expressed religious beliefs in their private writings, but never invoked it as a basis for their scientific findings).

But *as scientists* they at least try to remain completely agnostic. Why? Because invoking 'God' can explain *anything* ... and therefore it explains nothing. No theory that includes "then a miracle happened" as one of its steps, can be disproven. So it is not a scientific theory.

"We don't know yet." is a perfectly valid scientific answer.
"God did it." is not a valid scientific answer.
It may be a perfectly good (and true) answer, but it's not a *scientific* answer.

That is what is meant by 'agnostic behavior' in science.

Answer 3

The secret societies that protected the secret of the Grail
The descendants of Jesus of Nazareth and Mary Magdalene
The divine dynasty of the Merovingians
The secrets of the Order of the Temple
The disturbing truths about the Priory of Zion
The mysterious manuscripts discovered at Rennes-le-Chateau
are examples of agnostic behavioral thoughts

Answer 4

Agnostic behavior would be like going to a church because your girlfriend is going but not participated in the hymns or partake in the churches activities, if any, like Communion and so forth if they are Catholics.

An agnostic is basically a person that isn't sure if God exists or not. He probably wishes he believed in God but can't seem to somehow force himself or through sheer will to will himself to believe in what he deep down feels is too unbelievable or preposterous.

Answer 5

"agnostic" most often refers to someone who is terminally undecided as to whether there is or is not a God (ie, believe it can't be proven hither or thither. see the wikipedia article cited a above). however, it can also refer (i think) more generally to someone who is undecided abt something else. so behaving "agnostically" would mean that you do not behave in such a way as to committ yourself to one side or the other, particularly when it comes to religion. that is, behavior that works well with either possible answer to a big theological question. I would guess that in some non-theological contexts the phrase "agnostic behavior" would mean somethin glike "non-comittal behavior."
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Answer 6

An agnostic is someone who believe it's impossible to prove either way if a God (or Gods) exist.

I am not clear on how they would behave any differently than anyone else?

Answer 7

example of agnostic behavior: when someone sneezes an agnostic may reply " God bless you...if there is a God"

Answer 8

An agnostic is basically a wimp who can not commit.

Answer 9

It's the behavior that Alf's neighbors exhibited.

Answer 10

based on where you posted this, I think you mean agonistic behavior. It means: intraspecies behavior that is normally interpreted as attacking, threatening, submissive, or fleeing.