THE THINGS WE CAN AGREE WITH

  • The Earth is round.
  • The Sun is the center of our home Solar System.
  • Our Earth and other planets in the Solar System revolve in orbits around the Sun.
  • Our Sun is a star, and is in the Milky Way Galaxy.
  • The Milky Way Galaxy has about 100 million stars.
  • The Milky Way Galaxy is but one of a couple of trillion other galaxies.
  • The existential questions are, “Who are we, where did we come from and why are we here?” and, “Where did the universe come from? When? What was here before?”
  • Nobody knows.
  • Learned people across the ages (as well as charlatans) developed systems of answers to explain the inexplainable.
  • When people want an easy answer to complex or unknowable questions, there will always be someone who comes forth with a simple answer we want to hear.
  • Thus, the world’s religions, varied and different though they may be, all offer solutions to the eternal questions and the unknowable, accepted as matters of faith, based on no verifiable facts.