Logical fallacies and irrational claims

Here is one to get the ball rolling:

That has all the hallmarks of a false equivalence fallacy. I see objective evidence that brains result in what we call consciousness and this can involve subjective experience, when those brains die though, that consciousness disappears, when the brain is damaged that consciousness is impaired, we never objectively observe consciousness in the absence of a physical functioning brain.

That is an argumentum ad ignorantiam fallacy. Theism is a claim, atheism need not be, thus atheism per se no more needs to “explain” anything, than not believing in mermaids needs to explain anything.

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