RE: The most important reason anyone is a atheist
October 11, 2013 at 11:02 pm
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2013 at 11:02 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(October 11, 2013 at 10:34 am)apophenia Wrote: Regardless, this is one of your favorite arguments from ignorance, that you can't see how X is possible under materialism, therefore it is not.Actually, its the other way around. You claim that materialism is sufficient to explain all the relevant phenomena, but when it proves unable to do so, you never question the underlying monist paradigm. Either you try to pretend the phenomena is an illusion (like conscious awareness) or claim that someday, maybe a materialistic solution will be found.
Now in one sense you are correct, I cannot see a solution based on a physical monist paradigm, or at least find the proposed solutions unsatisfactory. That alone would not make me adopt a dualist position. As an alternative paradigm, dualism solves many of the problems and better accounts for all phenomena. Thus I think it is a better position and not just the last man standing