This page is best viewed in Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher and Netscape 4.0 or higher. HE natural attitude of a thinking mind toward the supernatural is that of skepticism' skepticism, not agnosticism. True skepticism connotes intellectual caution, but agnosticism is intellectual suicide. With these words Sir Robert Anderson opens one of his chapters in his In Defence, a book which we commend to everyone who suffers from mental doubts.
Agnosticism denies that there is a revelation, and therefore denies the Bible.
In effect, the agnostic is neither logical nor philosophical, for, whilst he acknowledges there is a God, he will not allow that God can reveal Himself to the creatures of His own bands. Agnosticism is thus essentially inconsistent and untenable whenever it goes beyond the declaration that there is much in relation to God which our intellects cannot apprehend. One can have much patience with the honest doubter, the man with sincere intellectual difficulties, who is willing to make use of even a rushlight if it will but lead him in the way of Truth. This article is not so much an exposure as an appeal, and that to the former class. And He has further laid down His principle, and a truly scientific principle at that, fully in accord with the modern scientific method, by which we may arrive at a clear knowledge of Truth, of Himself.