Many people inhabit two worlds. The everyday world, which we all take for granted, is full of amazing things made possible by science: Modern medicine, air travel, cell phones, automobiles, satellite TV. And scientists are constantly building on existing knowledge, and finding out more and more new things. They are using a tool that works: The scientific method. They take it for granted. We take it for granted.
Some of the people who take the results of science for granted, however, also inhabit a second world: A world of supernatural belief. Their religious convictions cause them to disbelieve many of the scientific principles that make the everyday world possible. This puzzles me.
The world they believe in is not the world they live in. What a piece of work is man.
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