Believe it or not

[NeverL0ved]

It is a simple fact that we do not know everything. There are many gap's that we are yet to fill in. But why do people think that belief is the way to ascertain knowledge, and glue those gap's together?

 

[Not David]

We are really proud if we think our human knowledge is infallible.

 

[NeverL0ved]

We are really proud if we think our human knowledge is infallible.

Not really an answer, but!

Has anyone attempted to invent something useful by belief alone?

 

[2PhiloVoid]

It is a simple fact that we do not know everything. There are many gap's that we are yet to fill in. But why do people think that belief is the way to ascertain knowledge, and glue those gap's together?

They don't. Belief and Faith are not words designating a particular epistemology, despite what various atheists like to advocate.

 

[Not David]

Not really an answer, but!

Has anyone attempted to invent something useful by belief alone?

Well no one does stuff by "belief alone".

 

[eleos1954]

It is a simple fact that we do not know everything. There are many gap's that we are yet to fill in. But why do people think that belief is the way to ascertain knowledge, and glue those gap's together?

What is knowledge?

the theoretical or practical understanding of something

and that's what we do ... have ideas and theories

nobody knows everything .... nor will we ever know everything there is to be known.

some things ... many things (beliefs) are theoretical and remain that way ... some theories become practical

practical
of or concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with theory and ideas

 

[jayem]

It is a simple fact that we do not know everything. There are many gap's that we are yet to fill in. But why do people think that belief is the way to ascertain knowledge, and glue those gap's together?

The human brain evolved to seek reasons and explanations. When natural causes aren't clearly apparent, we make up supernatural ones. History confirms this. Events like diseases, weather, natural disasters, the motions of the sun, moon, and stars, the rise and fall of the tides, and many others were at one time all thought to be the results of gods or spirits. And even today, for phenomena that have no obvious naturalistic mechanisms, many people still fabricate, and believe in supernatural ones. It's just how many peoples' cognitive processes work.

 

[NeverL0ved]

Sarah Jessica Parker walk's into a bar and sits down on a chair. "Give me a stiff drink" she says to the bartender. To which the bartender replies "What's wrong Sarah? Why so long in the face?"

 

[Quackduck]

It is a simple fact that we do not know everything. There are many gap's that we are yet to fill in. But why do people think that belief is the way to ascertain knowledge, and glue those gap's together?

Faith without any evidence to support it, doesn't work for me.

 

[NeverL0ved]

Faith without any evidence to support it, doesn't work for me.

Beliefs will never have evidence, for if a belief did, it would not require anyone to believe in it.

 

[NeverL0ved]

The human brain evolved to seek reasons and explanations. When natural causes aren't clearly apparent, we make up supernatural ones. History confirms this. Events like diseases, weather, natural disasters, the motions of the sun, moon, and stars, the rise and fall of the tides, and many others were at one time all thought to be the results of gods or spirits. And even today, for phenomena that have no obvious naturalistic mechanisms, many people still fabricate, and believe in supernatural ones. It's just how many peoples' cognitive processes work.

I would say this is the truth now, but was it the truth 10 thousand years ago? 20 thousand years ago? 50 thousand? When did religion arrive? That would be the marking point of civilization falling into that way of thinking.