(June 16, 2011 at 8:17 am)Gawdzilla Wrote:(June 16, 2011 at 8:14 am)Epimethean Wrote: Unfortunately, like a sinking ship, this brings the rats to the gunwales.
Fear-mongers love to play on panic, and the loss of their comfort zone when they realize they don't have a great sky fairy watching over them panics a lot of people. Some of them suddenly realize they have to think about something and with that comes the realization that they've never done this before and they have no clue how to do it.
Which sends them right back to religion, because their fear outweighs the search for truth.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell