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What term did Huxley coin to describe his religious beliefs?

  • Atheism

  • Deism

  • Agnosticism

  • Theism

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Huxley coined the term "agnosticism" in 1869 to describe his own beliefs about the nature of knowledge and the existence of God. He elaborated on this concept in 1889, framing it in terms of what is knowable and what is not.
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