As someone with a very deep interest in science, especially Physics, and as someone who would count themself as an atheist, I have become frustrated at how both science and atheism have been hijacked by a sort of quasi-philosophical position that might be termed 'hard-materialist' or 'atheist-materialist'. I say quasi-philosophical because there is a seemingly shared philosophical position but it lacks any kind of logical formalism. This position is based, quite simply, upon the notion of reductionism. What I'm aiming for with this blog is to highlight the many logical contradictions within that position.
I have tried to address these issues on science and atheist forums but this idea of 'hard-materialism' as equivalent to science and atheism is very entrenched. At the mere mention of any other position one is immediately confronted with accusations of trying to push some religious agenda, or of dealing in 'woo' (and interestingly the concept 'woo' and QM are almost synoymous within this thinking). The tactics of such communities is to deride the position as in some way religious and then to simply circularise any argument to little more than semantic gamesmanship.
Well, I am an atheist, and I believe that reductionist science is running itself down a blind alley searching for the modern equivalents of the planet Vulcan and the aether. What is lacking is any coherent ontology. There is an ontology, but it is an ad-hoc ontology, and is wracked with contradiction - which is what I hope to highlight here.
Thanks for reading.
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