Atheism Fails (New Theory Exposes)
Summary Claim:
Atheism fails to account for the intelligibility of experience, the structure of reality, and the possibility of knowledge. EAR provides a unified metaphysical and epistemological system in which being, perception, and relation are only possible through the Eternal Act, which atheism cannot ground.
I. Epistemological Argument Against Atheism (EAR-Based)
1. Knowledge presupposes a stable ground.
All acts of knowledge (even skepticism) require some stability: a “thing” must remain intelligible long enough to be known.
But under atheism:
Reality is in constant flux (time-bound)
Consciousness is a temporary accident
Truth is a construct of neural states
🧠 Problem: You cannot even assert “truth” unless there is something non-temporal, stable, and foundational.
2. The “now” is never available.
Every attempt to grasp the present fails — by the time you “say” or “think” it, it is already gone.
If time is all that exists (as atheistic materialism assumes), then no thought is grounded — every proposition collapses into the past.
📌 EAR insight: Only an Eternal Act can account for truth, because only the eternal “is.”
Any claim made in time must be rooted in something beyond time, or it is incoherent.
3. Perception without ontology collapses.
Atheism says consciousness “emerges” from matter.
But emergence is not identity — “wetness” doesn’t explain water’s existence.
If being is brute, then why should anything be knowable?
The intelligibility of the world — logic, math, pattern — assumes more than chaos.
📌 EAR holds: Perception is not emergence — it is relational collapse within a veiled act that is ontologically prior to both matter and mind.
➤ Epistemic Conclusion:
Atheism offers no foundation for knowledge, perception, or even truth.
EAR explains knowledge as the creature’s relational tuning to the Eternal Act, which is unchanging, intelligible, and sustaining.
II. Metaphysical Argument Against Atheism (EAR-Based)
1. Atheism assumes temporality as absolute.
All atheistic cosmologies begin with time + matter.
But time is not ontologically real — as shown by:
Julian Barbour’s timeless physics
Block universe models (B-theory)
Quantum mechanics (no universal “now”)
🧠 But: If time is not fundamental, the atheist loses their base assumption of change, development, and causation.
📌 EAR says: What appears as time is flux — a perceptual veil.
Being is not in time. It is, because it participates in the timeless Act.
2. Atheism cannot ground existence itself.
If everything is contingent (caused, dependent), then it all requires:
A first principle
A non-contingent ground of being
But atheism denies any necessity — it says existence “just is.”
That is not an explanation, it's a refusal to explain.
📌 EAR posits the Eternal Act: pure actuality, self-sufficient, timeless.
Creation is relationally dependent on that Act — not as a past cause, but as an ongoing veil-collapse of being.
3. Atheism fails to explain unity.
The universe is non-local (quantum entanglement).
There is no spatial or temporal separation at fundamental levels.
Atheism treats reality as parts — but the parts are always already entangled.
📌 EAR resolves this: all reality is already one, because it is the unfolding of a single, veiled Act.
III. Combined Argument (Formalized)
Premise 1: Knowledge requires a stable ontological ground.
Premise 2: Time-bound, materialist models (like atheism) provide no such ground — all is flux.
Premise 3: If time is not ontologically real (as quantum and philosophical data shows), then reality must be grounded in something eternal.
Premise 4: Participation in the Eternal Act explains the appearance of change, motion, and knowledge without making God change.
Conclusion: Only something like the Eternal Act (EAR) explains existence, knowledge, and perception coherently. Atheism fails to provide even the conditions for its own assertions.
Patristic and Scriptural Support
Acts 17:28 – “In Him we live and move and have our being.”
Not metaphor — metaphysical grounding.
Wisdom 11:21 – “You have arranged all things by measure, number, and weight.”
Ontological intelligibility requires a non-chaotic ground.
John 1:3 – “Through Him all things were made... and without Him, nothing was made that has been made.”
All being flows from one Logos, not chaos.
St. Augustine (Confessions XI):
“There was no time before You created.”
Time is a property of creation, not reality itself.
Boethius: “Eternity is the whole, simultaneous, and perfect possession of life.”
“Atheism says the universe is just stuff moving in time."
I stopped reading here.