There Are Many Sources Of Spirituality; Religion

Myths, Whether In Written Or Visual Form, Serve A Vital Role Of Asking Unanswerable Questions And Providing Unquestionable Answers. Most Of Us, Most Of The Time, Have A Low Tolerance For Ambiguity And Uncertainty. We Want To Reduce The Cognitive Dissonance Of Not Knowing By Filling The Gaps With Answers. Traditionally, Religious Myths Have Served That Role, But Today — The Age Of Science — Science Fiction Is Our Mythology.

I Am An Atheist. There, I Said It. Are You Happy, All You Atheists Out There Who Have Remonstrated With Me For Adopting The Agnostic Moniker? If "atheist" Means Someone Who Does Not Believe In God, Then An Atheist Is What I Am. But I Detest All Such Labels. Call Me What You Like - Humanist, Secular Humanist, Agnostic, Nonbeliever, Nontheist, Freethinker, Heretic, Or Even Bright. I Prefer Skeptic.

We Are A Fluke Of Nature, A Quirk Of Evolution, A Glorious Contingency.

The Question Itself [of Ufos] I Think Is Legitimate. It's Interesting, It's Fascinating. It's Mythic In Scale And One Of The Grand Questions. It's Like The God Question Or, You Know, The Meaning-of-life Question. It's One Of Those, On That Scale. So You'd Have To Be Made Of Wood Not To Be Interested And, You Know, Have They Come Here? Are They Up There?

We Know Evolution Happened Because Innumerable Bits Of Data From Myriad Fields Of Science Conjoin To Paint A Rich Portrait Of Life's Pilgrimage.