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Originally Posted by Chill Cosby
An Agnostic believes the existence of god to be unknowable. While an Atheist believes there is no god. "Weak Atheism" is essentially Agnosticism, wherein the Weak Atheist believes that there is not enough evidence to justify a definitive position on god.
atheism
[ey-thee-iz-uh m]
noun
1.
the doctrine or belief that there is no God.
agnostic
[ag-nos-tik]
noun
1.
a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.
The "would change their mind" argument is one that most apologists (yay I get to use the word!) bring out as justification, but it's not a unique qualifier as the same could be said by any agnostic or religious person as well. The type of evidence required would be extreme, or essentially the "evidence" is a straw man, because if you ask an atheist (or any religious person) what evidence would suffice, they themselves would suggest a type of evidence that they believe to be impossible.
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The classic example of evidence for creation and therefor god is "rabbits in the pre-Cambrian".
I prefer Dawkins definitions of atheism but I suppose even he classifies himself as an agnostic. But if you want to use those definitions that's fine at least it's a frame of reference.