A question for atheists
Atheists say they need evidence to believe in God. However, if evidence was actually provided, wouldn't it then be knowledge instead of belief?
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Atheists say they need evidence to believe in God. However, if evidence was actually provided, wouldn't it then be knowledge instead of belief?
Depends on your definition. It's a matter of philosophy, but knowledge is often defined as "justified true belief." By that definition, knowledge is a form of belief. You can believe something because it's been proven true.
There is no amount of evidence that has happened to other people that could change my viewpoint. It would have to be a personal experience, and because people say I reject the theory so that experience will never come, so I will never know god. I think that doesn't make a lick of sense but I am happy with what I don't believe.
its this simple if I don't have any evidence I just cant bring myself to follow it.
some people just aren't wired to go on blind faith I use to be super religious but after awhile it got hard lying to myself.
if you believe in god that's you and nobody can change that.
Anything which has concrete evidence for its existence is worth believing in.
Anything which does not have concrete evidence for its existence is not worth believing in.
The Bible isn't concrete evidence for the existence of God. The Bible is a book. If you think the Bible is concrete evidence for the existence of God, then by the same logic, you must think that the Beatrix Potter books are concrete evidence for the existence of Mrs. Tiggywinkle.
You basically said it in the question. Atheists need evidence to have knowledge, and they have no belief in things they don't have knowledge of.
If proper, credible, repeatable, and scientific evidence was discovered that proved the existence of a single or multiple higher powers, then yes, it would be considered knowledge. But so far, nothing even close to that has ever been provided, therefor, there is not any sort of higher power.
I'd believe if it was actual undeniable evidence and not more of that "look around you" or "This book that was written by god through mortal hands says god exists, therefore he does" horse crap. And a previous commenter said it best "Knowledge is informed, justified belief" so in the end your question really doesn't matter. No offense meant, of course.
I would believe it but I wouldn’t care, as if I discovered there was a god tomorrow nothing would have changed as there would have always been a god
I'm an Atheist. I hope I'm right because if not I'm screwed. And if the Jehova's Witnesses fuckers are right I'm double screwed. I think they have all kinds of bad shit happening to me.
Knowledge is not necessarily defined as a fact though and doesn't have to be proven true. Knowledge is defined as "facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education." You can have knowledge of something, but the knowledge could be wrong due to bad teaching or personal experiences that the individual misinterprets. Think of people who think that the earth is flat or believe that vaccines are bad. They have knowledge of something that isn't substantiated by anything meaningful. That being said a person who believes in god may have the knowledge of a higher power actually existing, but generally religions are based on faith and not substantial evidence and as an atheist that doesn't do anything to convince me that a higher power exists.
There is no way to 100% prove anything. You still have to make a choice whether you want to believe it or not. It's just more rational to believe in things with evidence behind them.
I mean what I don’t understand is most atheist
Believed in Santa
Believed in the tooth fairy
Believed in (supernaturals, not saying I don’t believe in some ) ghost, aliens, monsters
And some still believe in the previous mentioned one
So it confuses me a lot
But then they grew up and realized Santa was made up, and so is God. I don't get your point; you think Atheists still believe in the tooth fairy?
I’m not saying they still believe that
But many believe in the supernatural for some reason like aliens, ghosts, monsters
And some still believe in Santa, not speaking for all. But I’ve met one to five
And you forget not everyone ‘fully’ grows up
That is not true. Actually most atheists don’t believe in Santa or the Tooth fairy. But we know well not to fuck with demons.