Mr_Green_Genes wrote:
Modern Atheism is based on the radical materialism and mechanical view of the cosmos that dates at least to the 16th century (actually to the Epicurian ancient Greek philosophers*), I think it is time for new philosophical paradigms to emerge. If your vision of god is the one of an all powerful old white bearded man sitting on a throne above the clouds, than I don't believe in it either.
But my realization that god, or whatever metaphysical concept to fill this gap, is that consciousness is something that transcends out physical limits of the matter inside our skulls. It is an emergent phenomena, and it's fundamental physics might not just been accurately described yet (with all due respect to my neurologist friends, who do a great job).
In a nutshell. Well said, Greenie. That's pretty much where I'm at.