(December 24, 2014 at 11:00 am)JaceDeanLove Wrote: Hello. I'm a 16 year old who lives in Central Texas. I was curious why I'm so drawn to mysticism and the supernatural?I think that there's a part of us that likes mystery. Myths and legends and such things seem to have been popular for as long as there have been people to tell stories. Think of the literature that has stood the test of time, and a great deal of it is mythical and supernatural in nature. It can also help make a mundane life seem more vibrant, everything from the imaginary friends that a child has, to the religious beliefs that can place us in the middle of a war between the forces of good and evil, each of us with an important part to play!
So, lots of reasons. It's fun, it's mysterious, it's a major-league ego stroke, and so on.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
