[NicknamedBob]

"But really, if an accurate understanding of the world is the goal then patience, humility and a willingness to accept that we do not have answers for every scientific anomaly would help more than choosing up sides for and against Darwin. "

That's a very mature attitude. It is probably exactly the one chosen by the majority of calm and rational people.

It may, however, be that "an accurate understanding of the world" is not what is desired for you and your loved ones. How could you be mindlessly led in that case?

[married21]

“It may, however, be that “an accurate understanding of the world” is not what is desired for you and your loved ones. How could you be mindlessly led in that case?”

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I’m guessing you are saying that we’d go for the God option if we wanted to be sheeple. I’m thinking we might also go for the God option if
1) we are too busy or simply not smart enough to develop our own life-sustaining philosophy predicated on something else, so we grab an off-the-shelf solution. (Don’t disparage that: traditional religion has been exhaustively tested under real-life conditions, and comes complete with hope, faith, love, morality, cosmology, and pretty music.)

or 2)we actually want to live life the way it looks to people who are in deeply love— i.e. life is good, love is running the human world in the big picture, humans have a purpose beyond being a sack of chemicals, and we want to thank somebody somewhere for the life we have been given.

Anyway, I don’t think clear heads and open hearts are completely incompatible, so our family will be puttering along with a bit of both.