Are there any substitutes for having inner peace?

Not so. There can be no absolutism in atheistic thought without allowing for absolutism in fervant, numerically significant, and rational belief(or believers) At best, Crashfrog, we have a stalemate.One of the comments that I heard about you is that you are the atheist, liberal counterequivalent to Faith and her conservative Christian stance. You can lay all of the scientists and their facts end to end and never reach any conclusion beyond human wisdom. Belief is defined as an experience and subjective belief beyond human wisdom. To a believer, this experience is as objective as the math in a computation or the opinions of expert archeologists.I think that, pertaining to the topic of this thread, that there is a substitute for inner peace. It is known as debate and discussion.Your opinions, although often forceful and brash, are often objective...within the confines of human understanding.That, however, is not the only paradigm being discussed. The goalposts have been moved.