Why can't science detect angels and demons?

[thesummerqueen]

I am in complete agreement. junkyard is using a rather junky sort of argument ad populum by way of history, is all I was commenting on.

Humanity hasn't really changed for the past several thousand years, except to, if you believe statistics, actually become gradually less violent. Perhaps we're starting to scare the shit out of ourselves with our capacity to create weapons. Perhaps the oxytocin is ramping up. Who knows.

Either way, I do know that homo sapiens is homo sapiens and getting rid of religion would still leave people with fantasy prone personalities replacing gods with other shit. Not because the supernatural exists, but because our brains are pattern seeking and are still wired for pareidolia and many other chemically reacting mindsets - whether it's a feeling of oneness with the universe or a tripped trigger that makes you hear voices that aren't actually there.

For all a lot of theists and believers like to believe humans are fragile and something stronger and supernatural must exist, they are quite keen to ignore the actual fragility of the human brain which might just be fragile enough to trick them into all sorts of things.