Joseph Campbell made the following observation:
He asked do you know what a metaphor is?
Ex 1: John fights like a bear. (No, it is a simile)
Ex 2: John is a bear. (Yes, it is a metaphor)
He then observed that God is a metaphor for the great unknown mysteries of life: our purpose, our afterlife, our beginning, etc., and the metaphor predates modern science.
He then realized that there were basically two types of people:
Type 1: Those who accept the metaphor as fact, ie. "absolute truth". They are the religious believers.
and,
Type 2: Those who accept the metaphor as a metaphor. They are the agnostics who believe that any ultimate reality is unknown and probably unknowable.
If you are a Type 1, no scientific facts will ever change your mind as your beliefs are not founded in reality; but, belief in the reality of a metaphor.
At least I get to enjoy my Sundays off from work.
