Agnosticism can not support its claims with facts and evidence

I happily accept Pro's challenge, and look forward to what I'm sure will be a spirited debate.As an agnostic, I believe that not only are there good reasons to maintain such a philosophical position, but that the evidence is clearly and heavily in favor of agnosticism over faith.Before I post my opening arguments in the second round of our debate, I would like to give some history about my agnosticism and what lead me to this never-ending search for truth and knowledge that I began several years ago.The story of my agnosticism began on a cold, dreary day in 1992 in Kittanning, Pennsylvania. It was in this year in my brother's house that I became a born-again believer in Jesus Christ after my then-sister-in-law led me through the sinner's prayer. Immediately, I felt like a river was rushing through my body; a river that began washing away years of every negative aspect of my life and carried me closer to Jesus Christ. On that day, my spiritual life began and I began to immerse myself in Jesus' teachings, life, and most importantly, his death and resurrection.As I continued my walk with Christ, my relationship and burning passion to become more like him grew. Shortly after I moved to Hampton Roads, Virginia, I began searching in earnest for a God-fearing church, and it was through a friend that I finally found one. I began attending Bethel Baptist Church in Chesapeake, thirty miles from where I lived. So, nearly every Sunday and every Wednesday for over three years, I spent much of my free time at Bethel Baptist, growing in my faith and continually seeking God's direction for my life.Years passed and I enrolled at Penn State University where I studied Geography. Immediately after graduation I was offered a job with an international engineering firm where in Maryland. Since I worked evenings, it was during the long nights after work that I would spend my time challenging my faith. I became so sure of what I believed that I started to have online debates with non-believers in the hopes of converting them. After all, I had the truth of God's Word on my side. There was absolutely no way I could lose. But losing is exactly what I did. I lost nearly every debate I had on everything from evolution to the resurrection. And more often than not, when someone would hand me evidence that challenged my Christian worldview, I ignored it. As a result of losing those debates, I began to question not only what I was told about the Bible, but Jesus Christ himself. At first, I simply believed that at one time, I believed that the Bible was pure and perfect, but through hundreds of years of translations and mistranslations, it lost its original meaning. But I wondered, if Jesus is who he says he is, why couldn't he preserve his word even today? In spite of the questions I was asking, I considered my faith to be strong. But over time, those questions became more pointed. Ultimately, it was my love of science, particularly astronomy, that led to the erosion of my faith. And when the questions I had could yield no answers without greatly stretching the truth, I knew something was very wrong with Christianity. Finally, I asked a question of my former sister-in-law, the one that led me to Christ, that my faith finally became extinct. When I asked her a question that was simply too difficult for her to answer, she replied that I just need to stop asking so many questions and just believe. That was the final nail in the coffin of my faith. So on a cold November day in 2007, after three slow and often painful years of asking questions and not finding answers, I deconverted from Christianity and became an agnostic. I have a lot of atheist friends who persistently try to persuade me to make the next step into atheism, but I refuse to do so. I remain agnostic for one reason; I do not know if God exists, whether God be a he, she, it, they, or simply some mystical force. I maintain that agnosticism is a respectable and honest position to be in, and contrary to Pro's statement, is based on facts and evidence. I look forward to Pro's opening arguments.