Yes, that’s also the takeaway from the last section of the article. But we shouldn’t give up entirely on our intuitions. They evolved as shortcuts in reasoning, so we follow intuitions until they lead us into absurdity. That’s what I try to show happens in the cases of theism and atheistic naturalism when those are treated as ultimate explanations. Theism conflicts with science, roughly speaking, and atheistic naturalism undermines its completeness.

Our intuitions and snap judgments do tell us how we’ve been hardwired or culturally programmed. So we can doubt the ultimate applicability of those intuitions to the nature of reality. We come to fear rather than intuit that the universe is inhuman, not something we should feel at home in. That’s perhaps a higher, more honourable and angst-ridden way of relating to the world.