How can an atheist claim to have any knowledge?

Question

If there is no benevolent God, what reason do you have to believe your senses are not inaccurate? Your logic is not flawed? Your science is not deceptive?

If we were not created to have knowledge, and we merely evolved by blind processes, there's no way to conclude we have knowledge of reality.

Answer 1

What does the existence of a god have to do with any of your other arguments? The flawed logic and deception seem to be exclusively yours.

Answer 2

even if you were created how would that guarantee reality being real. a designer is more likely to create an illusion than a natural process. indeed i would think that it is almost impossible for a natural process to create a cohesive illusion. if this is a natural and real universe then our senses are giving us the best interpretation of external reality necessary for our survival, (which i would assume is pretty good). if this was a created universe then it is an artificial construct and illusion is a greater probability and more likely to part of the fabric of it. all of the evidence points to the universe being a natural process, therefore, we must assume that we perceive reality accurately. but, on the other hand, if it is a created artifact then the natural processes we perceive are indeed illusions. then again how does the creator know if it is not also part of a greater illusion. gods ad infinitum.

Answer 3

How do you know that God is benevolent? What if "reality" is an illusion created by a malevolent deity to create the appearance of benevolence? An argument from a position of anti-realism has no bearing on the existence of God.

Answer 4

From your point of view. Your fully encompassed in your belief, there is nothing outside of it. If it brings pleasure, it's a sin, you must suffer to be righteous. you follow rules that can't be adhered to and your told to do it with a smile.

Those of us with other beliefs don't understand how you can follow a man who reads from the same book you do but tells you it means something else and then accepts your money that he says is the root of all evil. I do believe in God, I don't believe the Church. Until you can define between the two you'll always judge us as inferior, which by-the-way, your book tells you not to do.

Answer 5

Easy,
god is imaginary. See how simple that was?
You see, (and I'll use small words so you understand) extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
And yet the extraordinary claim that god exists, has NO proof or even a single shred of credible evidence to support it.
Not one.
If there was I might think about it. But there isn't.

Answer 6

Christians claim to know all the answers yet they can't explain where dinosaurs came from or how in "SUPPOSEDLY" 6000 yrs the earths population has reached over 6 billion people. how do you know YOUR logic is not flawed? Oh yea, i believe in God too but I also know when to raise questions.

Answer 7

God is the standard. We cannot understand of submit to God's standard if we do not have the Holy Spirit of God helping us. We cannot rely on our own understanding. We all can admit that as we can know a little bit of a lot of things, it is impossible for us to have an exhaustive understanding of all things.

Anyhow, science is not the only way of knowing.

Answer 8

Descartes believed in God and no one worried more about deception by the senses than him.

Answer 9

if there's a god or not, how would our senses be altered? Belief based on ancient superstitions is not a rational response to the world, but an emotional one. Which is fine by itself, but if we don't all share the same emotional response.

Answer 10

We could all be part of "The Matrix", or we could be a giant universe that exists in a tiny toy marble in another universe.

But we have no way of proving the existance of those things either nor can we prove God.