(June 2, 2020 at 9:48 pm)Ryantology Wrote: and I don't believe science, or any other tool, can ever resolve that uncertainty.
But maybe your feeling comes from human obsession with something that science can't (yet) explain.
I mean take bigfoot. People get so obsessed with it, they go into the woods to find it, they love listening stories about it.
But what would happen if someone actually discovered some giant apes to be living in forests of Nevada or Alaska? People probably wouldn't get excited about it anymore, it would just be zoology, shelved with all other animals.
The same would probably go with aliens, goblins, unicorns, dragons, gods... Once something is explained and understood, most people lose interest in it, and it becomes appealing only to experts in the field.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
