ABSTRACT
Agnosticism is an ambiguous position, which can be used for either affirming or denying the existence of God and the need for absolute moral values. However, if not used to support the existence of God, agnosticism is in effect a practical atheism. One of the most popular arguments against the existence of God is called the problem of evil. If either evil or God or both are only ideas in my mind, then nothing is really good or evil, and so the problem of evil vanishes. In recent philosophical history, the best example of sophisticated atheism is Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Nietzsche realizes that without the support of Judao-Christian theology the whole Judao-Christian moral system collapses. It might also be pointed out that it was Bertrand Russell who asserted that believing something on faith means believing something on the basis of nothing. He delighted in condemning 'blind faith' as unreasonable and unscientific.
