I hate it even when atheists say "we don't know everything" which is true, that does not negate what we DO KNOW.
And our best scientific data to date is saying to a very great and overwhelmingly credible degree that we are finite. In terms of science WE DO KNOW, why humans gap fill, and even outside the issue of religion, our brains do it on a daily basis and most of the time without us being aware of it.
WE DO KNOW, in scientific terms, why humans gap fill with god claims and project ideas of continuing on after death and why we gap fill with these fantasies.
Nobody would take someone seriously if they claimed the extinct dinosaurs were now in a "dinosaur heaven". Nobody thinks about what happens to the "soul" of a cockroach, and nobody thinks a blade of grass has a "soul".
Our claims of gods, and afterlife and even the superstition of reincarnation are merely our species fear of death and or in combo with our narcissistic sense of being important to a 14 billion year old universe. No, I will not even give atheists a pass on this because they are also stuck on a false sense of fairness.
We are finite as a species just like any other life, and just like the 99% of now extinct life that DID NOT survive the 5 mass extinctions in our planet's evolution history.
It still remains that our evolved cognition is built upon layers of events and specific arrangements of DNA an molecules that have to be part of the entire in tact structure. It still remains that a single cell CANNOT act by itself and certainly not after it has been damaged beyond repair. No, a single atom also cannot act as the entire in tact brain.
WE ARE FINITE, and humans would do better to accept that so we can focus on what we have now to extend that finite ride rather than dwell on what is clearly our own wishful thinking rooted in an ignorant past.
And our best scientific data to date is saying to a very great and overwhelmingly credible degree that we are finite. In terms of science WE DO KNOW, why humans gap fill, and even outside the issue of religion, our brains do it on a daily basis and most of the time without us being aware of it.
WE DO KNOW, in scientific terms, why humans gap fill with god claims and project ideas of continuing on after death and why we gap fill with these fantasies.
Nobody would take someone seriously if they claimed the extinct dinosaurs were now in a "dinosaur heaven". Nobody thinks about what happens to the "soul" of a cockroach, and nobody thinks a blade of grass has a "soul".
Our claims of gods, and afterlife and even the superstition of reincarnation are merely our species fear of death and or in combo with our narcissistic sense of being important to a 14 billion year old universe. No, I will not even give atheists a pass on this because they are also stuck on a false sense of fairness.
We are finite as a species just like any other life, and just like the 99% of now extinct life that DID NOT survive the 5 mass extinctions in our planet's evolution history.
It still remains that our evolved cognition is built upon layers of events and specific arrangements of DNA an molecules that have to be part of the entire in tact structure. It still remains that a single cell CANNOT act by itself and certainly not after it has been damaged beyond repair. No, a single atom also cannot act as the entire in tact brain.
WE ARE FINITE, and humans would do better to accept that so we can focus on what we have now to extend that finite ride rather than dwell on what is clearly our own wishful thinking rooted in an ignorant past.
