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Noun(1) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs

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(1) Indeed, all progress depends on the sceptic , the questioner, the person who does not wholly conform.(2) The inevitable convergence of such findings with religion makes it impossible for a sceptic , atheist and man of science to swallow such phenomena.(3) But, I was not a sceptic but rather a true believer in God.(4) The sceptic 's caricature that Noah had fish tanks on the ark is wrong.(5) A religious sceptic , and by nature a conciliator, Orléans sought a compromise.(6) It is not aimed at the total sceptic , but rather the serious seeker.(7) Xenophanes was a sceptic who denied that knowledge could be obtained by us humans; at best we merely have beliefs, the truth or falsity of which will remain largely unknown to us.(8) Lieberman has drawn so much praise, in fact, that some skeptics are questioning whether the media are getting carried away.(9) Some of the food laws have been attacked by sceptics as ‘proof’ that the Bible makes mistakes, meaning it could not be God's written word.(10) But in general, I think we do ourselves a disservice as skeptics if we try to maintain that the only ‘pure’ skeptic is an atheist skeptic .(11) The main reason skeptics reject the Biblical account is the work of British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon, who excavated the area in the 1950s.(12) On the contrary, he bracketed sceptics with atheists and free thinkers as the adversaries whom his system was meant to frustrate.(13) He was different from the other skeptic that had questioned her before.(14) Some skeptics also tend to lump all forms of religion in with irrationalism and superstition.(15) I'm not giving in to the sceptics and critics.(16) How does he gain by fortressing himself and his administration away from critics, skeptics , and questioners?
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Noun
1. cynic
2. agnostic


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