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This strikes me as really bizarre reasoning. A malevolent deity can fake one prophet's experience but is incapable of scaling the deception up to convincing everyone personally?
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And what happens if we figure out, say, free will or the nature of good and evil? Would that cause you to modify your opinion?
You say this like it would be a bad thing if true. I think your mental model of what/how atheists think is not very accurate. What's so is so, whether we like it or not (see the obligatory http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Litany_of_Gendlin and http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Litany_of_Tarski). Reasoning from "nihilism is bad" to "therefore, reductionism is incorrect" is not a reasoning method which will reliably lead you to correct conclusions (argument from consequences).
Also, the formatting on this is inconsistent.