A Place for Philosophy
Many people believe that every question should have an answer, so people discuss a lot of issues to come to some resolve. This does not necessarily answer any question in particular, but people in general, for some reason, feel that if you can discuss an issue then you should be able to resolve that issue. Philosophy has a term for this sort of attitude about the world, the descriptive fallacy. It more or less states that not all language is used to describe the world.
Philosophers often come to standstills on issues and then of course proceed to call these standstills a belief. The Agnostic position on the belief in God is an example of this sort of belief. Really, claiming one cannot know the answer, or prove either side, I feel is not a legitimate position, but it has been used by many philosophers as a wonderful philosophical tool to argue certain points. This theory is known better as skepticism. I propose that it is impossible to win any argument where the opposer is a skeptic although it seems to me a cop-out to the responsibilities of the philosopher. The view skeptics hold can have some very scary conclusions and do little to promote the advancement of important scientific and philosophical knowledge. Pragmatic answers to skepticism are much more practical. Quine was a leader in pragmatist views during his career.
Quine, how do coherence theories explain knowledge?
Wittgenstein is often used to in discussions about the relevance of religion.
I will work on expanding this site in the future and providing links to serious philosophical inquiries and rationalized answers.