Steel's diagram is a good one for understanding how belief relates to claims of knowledge which, as Alex says, would be meaningless if you can't lay out what sorts of evidence would be confirming. That goes to the problem of defining the term 'god', a real sticking point for some of us. I can imagine a range of definitions of god which I would dismiss out of hand and a few others I would be slower to dismiss where the definition seems entirely foreign to what most theists claim.
Then there is the question, why should we care? If you swear you've seen unicorns up at your summer property. I'll say that's nice, back away slowly and ignore your claim. So long as 'gods' seem to mean something inactive and undetectable in the world, why should I care? That gets filed in the round file. As a here-and-now'er, I have no use for ever-after, woo or magic beings.
Then there is the question, why should we care? If you swear you've seen unicorns up at your summer property. I'll say that's nice, back away slowly and ignore your claim. So long as 'gods' seem to mean something inactive and undetectable in the world, why should I care? That gets filed in the round file. As a here-and-now'er, I have no use for ever-after, woo or magic beings.
