My View on Belief vs. Knowledge

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Atheism says you do not believe there is a god. It doesn't necessarily require that you believe there isn't a god. These are not the same statement, they answer two separate claims:

(1) There is a god
(2) There is not a god

To reject claim (1) does not require that you accept claim (2). You may feel you don't have enough conviction to say you believe (2) is true. In other words, you don't see enough evidence to rule god in or out yet.

That is an additional stance to default atheism, but would still be an agnostic atheist yes, if you didn't claim to know there isn't a god.

This is subtle stuff, and I'm going to be barfing it onto my blog soon :p

Do you believe you'll still be alive an hour from now? How about five minutes from now?

Yes. Yes.

Do you know you'll still be alive an hour from now? How about five minutes from now?

No. No.