Scientists often confuse the model with reality. That is, they find a reasonable way to map out what MAY have happened, and then confuse it with what DID happen. Christians, often confuse the scriptures with reality, that is, they confuse Hebrew legends, myths and stories with history (for example, care to provide any secular evidence for King Saul, King David, King Solomon and his temple, or Hebrews in Egypt as Slaves?).
Both groups, seem to me, rather silly.
How much less dishonest to be able to say (as only a few from each group seem able) “We don’t know, and it doesn’t matter all that much anyway.”
If you want to believe in a God, or Gods or no Gods, then choose for yourself. However, if you are foolish enough to hold your belief as fact, then you appear no better than the fool on the other side. We do not know if a deity of any sort exists, Yahweh has been pretty silent for about 2000 years, his Son appears to have gotten lost on his way back and Zeus and the gang apparently moved out of Mt. Olympus awhile back. Further, we DO NOT KNOW what happens after death. There may be Heaven or Hell, there may be reincarnation, there may be nothing… none of us will know until we experince it ourselves. ANYONE who tells you differently, is lying. They may be the nicest old pastor form a quaint little town, a bombastic megachurch Reverend or Richard Dawkins… not so different in the end.
There was only one Commandment that Moses really needed to bring down from that Mountain:
“Thou Shalt Think For Yourself, Schmuck!”
