<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 30, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Darren Greer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">I don't see why an agnostic by definition should accord respect to a believer or non-believer.</span></span></blockquote><div><br></div>There is not one scrap of evidence that a teapot is in orbit around the planet Uranus and there is not one scrap of evidence that there is not such a vessel; nevertheless I do not treat both possibilities with equal respect so I am not a Uranus teapot agnostic. I am a teapot atheist.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark <br><br></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>