Do non-atheists deny knowledge to maintain their beliefs whilst atheists deny beliefs to maintain knowledge?

Answer 1

belief is the beginning of knowledge (though we prefer the term 'hypothesis' in real investigation).

atheists discard hypotheses when there is no evidence to confirm them.

(we do not 'deny' spurious hypotheses, we merely discard them as useless).

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theists get as far as forming a hypothesis, but since they have no notion of reality the idea of confirming / disproving a hypothesis would be meaningless to them.

(buddyxlee imagines that there are egyptian chariots in the red sea. he considers his fantasies evidence).

theists are focused on an afterlife: they don't really value or understand anything in the sensual world.

theists are basically the people who watch national geographic all day and think they are traveling the world.

Answer 2

Just one point the world is not black and white, computers are binary i.e. 1 or 0 , Humans are Fuzzy that is from black though to white with all the shades of Gray in between.

your question reads like you are saying 1 or 0

So lets clear things up a little

Belief is not know but accepting that some thing is without proof.
Knowing is having proof that something is either first hand or from experience

Knowing: I put my cat in a large box, I know is because the action was perform by myself, I have proof

Believing: The cat has been in the box for 5 days, I believe it must be dead

But if the cat has been in the box for 5 week then I know that the cat is dead, but may wish that it wasn't

This is way I am neither an atheist nor a believer.

I know what I know and I know that I don't know everything so I do not say that what I don't know to be true is therefore false.

Believer at one end
Atheist at the other
Agnostic in the middle

please rethink your question base on this new information

Oh and Kris you little devil, there a little difference between not believing and denying belief.

If we all thought a little more the world would a much better place.

Answer 3

Well I'm a non-atheist that uses knowledge to maintain my beliefs. Certain things explained by science point to several things that the bible talk about.

Such as exact right angle hills at the supposed site of S'dom (Sodom) which have never occurred anywhere else on earth. Chariots lying in the red sea. How perfect everything had to be for earth to even be habitable, let alone intelligent life spring up on this planet.

Yes some walk with knowledge and deny belief, and vice versa. But some do find knowledge and belief to be co-existing.

Answer 4

Politically, yes. Practically, no.
Politically, people simplify arguments and adhere to strict ideals that have no proper function in reality.
An atheist who claims to eschew belief only does so as function of their own particular idiomatic paradigms, and if they aren't complete idiots, will realize that it is patently impossible to exist without some modicum of belief. Even logic requires some small smidgen of belief in it. Nothing can ever be known with completely certainty.
As for "non-atheists," that's far too large of a group to universally label them as knowledge haters, but it does tend to be true that the more guarded a group is about beliefs, the more they tend to shun knowledge from outside sources. If you asked them, however, they'd stringently deny that they hate knowledge; the rub is that the knowledge has to be generated from within their own perceptual biases, which are obviously tinted by their religious slants, and created through the inchoate smokescreen of belief.

So, in closing, it's not as simple an analogy as your question would hope for.

Answer 5

Many atheists deny knowledge regularly, Just look at the attempts of atheists to keep the Smithsoniam from showing the movie showing the fine tuning of the universe even though nothing they said was unscientific.http://www.arn.org/docs2/news/privilegedearth112001.htm

Answer 6

No, I don't deny knowledge to maintain my beliefs.
LOL, do you ever let up? Your whole life revolves around hating Christians and their children.
You probably fill your children with hate for anyone who is not an atheist. You're kinda like Hitler in a way, aren't you, in that you see all atheists as perfect and all others as needing to be exterminated.

Answer 7

You've got it! What's wrong with having no beliefs,and anyway, there are other things to believe in besides God,how would that maintain knowledge to not believe something?I guess,you mean just being intelligent,and that's good.

Answer 8

Aetheists deny an existence of a supreme being. This is not to maintain knowledge. This is to correlate with their scope of knowledge. Non-aethiests don't deny knowledge. There is sufficient material to maintain their beliefs.

Answer 9

Not sure about "knowledge". As there is no concrete proof in respect of whether or not God exists, both atheists and non-atheists require a "leap of faith" in order to maintain their beliefs.

Answer 10

You're argument is very ambiguous. Belief is also a product of knowledge. You cannot deny knowledge and have no belief. (Very contradicting argument)