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April 5th, 2009 by Sean Completeness of Atheism

With the combination of evolution, emergence, and recognizing that the mind is responsible for the illusion of the world, I have stumbled upon a near-complete model of reality. I find myself saying things I’ve heard come out of the Atheist’s mouth. We don’t need a God to explain… anything. We can offer a more robust explanation using the Atheist’s concepts.

The Atheist has created a beautiful model of reality, really. It offers concrete answers to strange observations, and makes solid predictions about the future. It can answer more questions than any other system of beliefs I’ve come across. It is simple, elegant, and complete.

And that’s what bothers me :-).

First, let me state that Atheism is far better than any other modern theist belief structure. It is light-years beyond Christianity, in my opinion. Not that I don’t feel Christianity serves a useful purpose… I’m comparing the beliefs based on which offers more reasonable explanations. I.e., Evolution appeals to reason more than the Garden of Eden.

That being said, I find myself really upset with ESP and out-of-body experiences all of the sudden. They really ruin this perfectly complete Atheist model. I mean… they profoundly ruin it. By giving special exception to consciousness, we’ve invalidated the beauty of Atheism. The Atheist’s reply is to remove the special exception, restoring beauty to it’s model. But to be honest, I’m not really sure we can do that.

If I could ignore ESP and OBEs, I’d be a perfectly content Atheist right now. But damn it all to hell if reality hasn’t ruined it.

Incomplete or inconsistent. Gödel’s curse remains.

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### 5 Responses to “Completeness of Atheism”

1. X-Master Says:
   April 5th, 2009 at 5:21 pm

   Well, evolution can actually be argued for the existence of God actually. Even though that flies in the face of what is normally accepted in most religons.

   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19956961/

   And I think another part of the inconsistency is spirituality, it is inherent in the human condition. So can not really be removed. Sure you can take away religon and that might have some impact, since most religons give you your jumpstart in that area of your life, but can exist independently, and can arise that way, at least to a degree.

   So even if you get rid of the idea of God, people are still going to believe and have faith in something. Whether it be science, or Atheism, since Atheists do have to have some faith and belief that their system is true. Because science can not prove anything is the absolute truth, all it can do is sprial closer and closer to it, but most likely never reach it.

2. DeathMinister Says:
   April 5th, 2009 at 11:57 pm

   What if there were a theology that did have a perfect perception of reality? It’d be pretty boring since nobody would have anything to argue about :/

3. X-Master Says:
   April 6th, 2009 at 5:02 pm

   Well the problem with that is, is can not be known whether or not that theology had a perfect perception of reality. And people would still argue over it, because they would still want to prove that theirs is right, and the others are wrong.

4. Trick Says:
   April 12th, 2009 at 11:54 am

   ESP and OBE’s dont conflict with Atheism.

5. Psikillion Says:
   May 19th, 2009 at 7:51 am

   @ X-Master

   Yeah I agree evolution can be the way God made things. In fact the entire Creationist/Evolutionist argument is insane. Each party argues how they are in the right and bashes everyone who opposes them. However, since they are so focused on the nitty gritty details they ignore the fact that our universe was made. How it was made is unimportant, because we still have the same universe, the same planet Earth, and the same human race! What is important is that we care for our world in every way that we can, rather than getting caught up trying to defeat one another’s personal views!

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