Tom and the Agnostics should have been credited with originating the phrase 'what you see is what you get'. They were not mad fanatics and whenever pushed to the limits of their own explanations, and they very often were, they could be relied upon to fall back on the only really true answer: 'I really, really don't know'.

       If a thing could be seen, heard, touched, smelt then it could be described and understood. Such a thing, obviously, existed.
       If a thing (such as God) could not be seen, heard, touched etcetera then it followed that it could neither be described nor understood.
       This was bad news for all the established religions who, naturally, saw logic and common sense as a real threat to dogma and faith, but good news for the 'don't knows' who now had something cleaver to call themselves.

       If there is a God, and he did suddenly appear to prove it, then he could do a lot worse than to call at the Agnostics door first.

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