Atheism

[I_am_not_mafia]

False analogy. Lightening is a natural phenomenon. Religious experiences are a supernatural phenomenon.

You don't know that.

How about I state:

'Lightening is a natural phenomenon. Religious experiences are also a natural phenomenon.'

How do we determine who is correct? I already have an advantage because you don't even know what supernatural means yet we know what natural means. And this enables us to test whether there are natural and scientifically rigorous explanations for religious like experiences (there are).

And here you are talking about begging the question while making unwarranted assumptions that the supernatural exists when there is no evidence for it (and can't be if you don't even accept natural evidence to determine if it exists or not). So your whole argument is begging the question. No wonder you are so keen to project your own failings onto others.

I am aware of no progress on the mind/body dualism question. In fact, I think that stating that we are purely mechanistic is a belief that stems from metaphysical naturalism (philosophy) rather than actual science.

Your ignorance does not determine reality. I stated that the more scientific evidence we have, the more it looks like the brain works in a purely mechanistic way. And as I keep repeating, at no point have we found anything to suggest otherwise.