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I don’t think we need to rewrite the Bible – all we really need to do is clearly label it: Psychology/philosophy – Not To Be Mistaken With Physical Reality.

Just as with Intelligent Design notions, they make sense to me on certain levels, but physical reality is not one of them.

As for the first ten steps, some pretty fascinating stuff, I don’t get why knowing that doesn’t provide any inner satisfaction to most.  At least for me I can’t help feeling emotionally and spiritually enlivened by those evolutionary details.

On a slightly different but related note – having an infant thrust into my life again, as in providing actual child care, and occasionally watching the parade of visitors to meet the newbie – I’ve found that many treat the kid as though it were an object rather than a sentient little person who’s paying very close attention to the world and ready to interact with anyone who’s paying attention to him (or her as the case may be).  Yes it’s a baby so it’s not going to play cards with you, but if you pay attention it’s amazing what you’ll notice.

It fits right in with my impression that for most people Earth, the biosphere we exist within, all that is little more than a two dimensional post card to their minds and spirits.  The cascade of Deep Time means nothing.   So very sad and empty.  Not to mention self-destructive.