Why atheism is irrational

[Vincenzo Vinny G.]

What would you call someone who saw no evidence for the hypothesis that "Everything in the world can be explained without appealing to the supernatural?"

To stop looking for natural explanations is to die intellectually. I don't know what's out there. The Q continuum may exist. Zeus may exist. Allah may exist, and may really want us to mutilate little girls' genitals (sorry, Rayaan- I know this is NOT you). If something supernatural exists, then by definition I cannot understand it, study it, or predict it, which is pretty boring. I think I'll stick with genetics.

What taxonomic bracket would you put them into?

Probably Homo sapiens sapiens, although if you have evidence that other species could talk, I am dying to hear it.

Zazzy, look up the easy and hard problems of consciousness. We're already forced to give up looking for natural explanations.

This doesn't mean all kinds of nonsense deities exist. Rather it means that a purely physical view of the world is fundamentally incomplete, and some would argue, impossible.

Perhaps a better option is to be cautiously open to the possibility of a non-materialistic account of the world, as carefully guided by rational and empirical principles as possible.