“Is there a God?” Belief is irrelevant to the question; knowledge is what’s important—with the only possible responses to be “yes,” “no,” or “I don’t know.”
Knowledge is belief.
The question is: is what someone states as knowledge true or not.
You cannot “know” there is not God without believing there is no God.
It is now what we do not know that harms us as much as what we do know that is not so.
You are right, but only to a certain extent. There is a difference between knowledge and belief, with knowledge as much more credible.
Which is a more credible statement in court: “I believe John was at the house” or “I know John was at the house”?
But, knowledge is not the same as “truth.” As Mr. Watson said, “Both a knowledge statement and a belief statement can be true or false. But if false, the former can be justified with credible evidence that just turned out to be erroneous or obsolete, while a belief can’t provide any credible justification.”
For example, I know the earth is a sphere, but I know someone who believes the earth is flat. My knowledge is based on credible evidence, including my own eyes when I looked out the window of a plane when I first left the Philippines, but his is based on YouTube videos.
Which is more credible?