An atheists guide to reality

[Angrboda]

You misunderstand predictive power. It isn't about whether the predictions can be shown to be true in the empirical sense, it's about how many predictions your explanation can lead to, numerically. We have evolutionary explanations about altruism. We also have spiritual explanations of altruism. We can form multiple predictions based on the evolutionary explanations. The spiritual explanations lead to almost no predictions. Thus, on the basis of its capacity to give rise to predictions, the spiritual explanation is inferior.

Spiritual eyes? Wut?

Now you've just gone off the rails. I do not consider self and goodness to be objective, so no, you haven't provided anything we can see that shows I have a spirit.

There are biological based explanations for all these things; explanations that have equal scope, greater explanatory power, and are more predictively fruitful.

Independent of knowing which set of explanations is true, they are superior explanations as explanations.

Let me give you an alternative that has similar qualities to your explanation. "I say we desire fairness because of glorp." Is this a good explanation just on the qualities that make explanations good? Why or why not?