Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Is there a place in a church where you leave your brains when you enter?

The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

But, as we have seen, movement does not require a mover, and modern quantum mechanics has shown that not all effects require a cause. And even if they did, why would the Prime Mover need to be a supernatural anthropomorphic deity such as the Judeo - Christian God? Why could it not just as well be the material universe itself?

The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

Scientists have practical reasons for wishing that religion and science be kept separate. They can see nothing but trouble ... if they venture into the deeply divisive issue of religion - especially when their results tend to support a highly unpopular, atheistic conclusion.

Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.