Quote:My argument is that if atheism is true, then morality does not really exist. It appears to, of course. But it doesn't really.
The reason I think this casts doubt on the truth of atheism is, well, frankly it seems more clear and distinct to me that I have moral obligations than that I am not dreaming right now. I am not suggesting I am dreaming right now. My point, rather, is that the reality of the sensible world - the world as revealed by my sense of sight and touch - is less clear and distinct than the reality of morality. After all, I've dreamt of chairs and trees and scientists and so on, but I have never dreamt that nothing is right or wrong. I am not saying it is inconceivable that morality does not really exist. My point is just that it is more apparently real than, say, the chair I am sitting on. thus I think that, if push comes to shove, one should listen to the more reliable witness over the less reliable. One should infer that a god exists rather than that morality does not, in other words.
What?
Your entire argument was based on what "seems to you", that is "apparently", things you've "dreamed of" and not "dreamed of" and you conclude with "reliable witness over the less reliable". What have you mentioned that is at all reliable?! Sensations and observations and dreams do not come into the realm of determining reality! it merely is what the world appears to us after our brains has processed what we pick up.
And the point that morality has to exist because you've never experienced the lack of morality in dreams before. People do bad and immoral things a lot, that is a better evidence than your dreams. Does morality not exist for them? Is it a different set of morality? These are things you have to deal with before you go on with morality has to exist.
