RE: Creation Muesum
October 24, 2015 at 1:59 pm
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2015 at 2:59 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
Limited imagination and perception, ego-centrism and delusions of grandeur are natural traits of human-kind. All we can truly imagine is ourselves. We like stories way more than dry information and are easily bored and quickly disinterested without a familiar narrative. Big Bang, organic chemistry, natural selection and other such concepts are impersonal and emotionally unappealing. Big Parent-figure in the sky, who can do anything, who sometimes spanks us, but ultimately loves us - that's something even a very small child can comprehend and relate to; in fact - it has to in order to survive in a harsh environment in which our ancestors evolved.
Our primal instinct is to seek pleasant emotions and to avoid unnecessary effort - both physical and mental. Which is why most people accept easily accessible religious - or otherwise fantastic and entertaining - explanation, reject cold, dry and complex information presented by science - and not even spare a thought for the infinity of explanations possible, if one is not bound by logic and need for evidence - just as in the case of belief in god/-s.
Our primal instinct is to seek pleasant emotions and to avoid unnecessary effort - both physical and mental. Which is why most people accept easily accessible religious - or otherwise fantastic and entertaining - explanation, reject cold, dry and complex information presented by science - and not even spare a thought for the infinity of explanations possible, if one is not bound by logic and need for evidence - just as in the case of belief in god/-s.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
