(November 18, 2020 at 4:23 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The real tragedy in all of this, is that there's an excluded third possibility. Yes, the children imagined the fairies that you now believe to be the authors of creation - but they weren't wrong about there being purpose in life. A natural teleology.
Even if it were true, that the existence of supreme beings comes naturally to our imagination is remarkable in itself.