Why atheism is irrational

[Zazzy]

Zazzy, look up the easy and hard problems of consciousness.

No. I have enough reading to do (my project is veering into biophysics, which is making me unhappy). If you have something you want me to know, give me a brief synopsis.

We're already forced to give up looking for natural explanations.

It would be a shame if scientists all over the world bought into that. And they won't, because finding a good natural explanation for data is better than anything.

This doesn't mean all kinds of nonsense deities exist

This is every deity except yours, of course.

Rather it means that a purely physical view of the world is fundamentally incomplete, and some would argue, impossible.

Only an idiot would say that our physical view of the world is complete. Just think of all the homeless graduate students! Is it impossible? Maybe. There is so much to know, and such a limited amount of time to know it in.

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.

Sure, I'm open. I want to believe in the rainbow bridge, hobbits, and ESP. I don't, but I want to. But why would I want to believe in the Christian god? Unless you hippie him up, he's a douche. Show me something to hang my hat on that doesn't involve tortured logic or word games, and I'll listen.