Dr. William Lane Craig shows why Agnosticism Fails

It has been said by many that Agnosticism is the more humble and reserved view. Those who think that Christianity is true are called arrogant because they think that their view is correct and other systems of belief are wrong.

I will now make a few points regarding this view.

1- The Agnostic claiming that "nobody can know" so its best to reserve judgement is also making an exclusive claim.

This view excludes views that are exclusive. So as hard as one may try to get out of it, the Agnostic is caught in a "Self-Referential " defeating statement.

If I were to say " I cant speak a word in English" my statement would be obviously false because I just spoke in English. If I said "All words are meaningless" I am using words to convey meaning.

So when the Agnostic says that those who are exclusive are arrogant, he is committing this fallacy because he is excluding those whose religions are exclusive!

2- The Theist is not claiming absolute 100%knowledge. The Theist and Agnostic is looking at the world around him and must decide what world-view makes sense of what knowledge we do have.

So the Theist looks at arguments for Gods existence and will think there is good reason to believe that the evidence leads to a Creator or he will not. Nobody claims 100% certainty. If one required that kind of certainty they would not be able to believe anything, because very few things can be shown to be 100% certain. The agnostic is unconvinced by arguments for Gods existence show he has made a judgement that the evidence is not good enough for him to jump to Theism. So the Agnostic has not "with-held" judgement, but has decided that he does not find the evidence convincing.