> Those things I do not know about, I do not know about. It is not logical to waste energy either believing or disbelieving in them.
That's the atheist position: An atheist (like me) simply accepts evidence and comes to conclusions based on that. My disbelief in deities is the same as my disbelief that my bank account currently contains one million dollars US: The best I can do based on my current knowledge.
Agnosticism is a belief that we can't know some things, which I do not have.
> but there's nothing wrong with Joe SixPack believing it.
Fine, unless his belief in it means he kills his family and himself so they can escape the Matrix. Beliefs have consequences.
> This means that science education is not simply a matter of learning new theories. Rather, it also requires that students unlearn their instincts
That's the atheist position: An atheist (like me) simply accepts evidence and comes to conclusions based on that. My disbelief in deities is the same as my disbelief that my bank account currently contains one million dollars US: The best I can do based on my current knowledge.
Agnosticism is a belief that we can't know some things, which I do not have.
> but there's nothing wrong with Joe SixPack believing it.
Fine, unless his belief in it means he kills his family and himself so they can escape the Matrix. Beliefs have consequences.
> This means that science education is not simply a matter of learning new theories. Rather, it also requires that students unlearn their instincts
This I fully agree with.