Knowledge is information known and not yet known. There is no way to know how much knowledge is yet to be known except to laboriously discover new previously unknown knowledge. A problem arises when we do answer a question only to find in the answer several previously unknown questions. The result of this gaining of knowledge is to repeatedly realize we are more ignorant than we had earlier realized.
Without all the information of relevant knowledge we are all unable to reach a conclusion whether or not there is a God simply because one would be making a decision without all the knowledge necessary to do so.
Secondarily, and separately, it is impossible to prove a negative which is to say there is no God. The only avenue left is to plead ignorance. The chilling problem for the agnostic is that he has unknown, as well as seriously limited time available to make a definitive decision. In my experience anyone leaning toward agnosticism always finds eventually the hammer comes down on atheism.
We are then subsequently all forced to realize we can only decide using faith.
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