Why I'm Not an Atheist: The Case for Agnosticism

[Big Blue Marble]

79. How many theories, beliefs, and ideas that were advanced a century ago

are now still held to be true? How many that we hold now even in science will be
held to be be true one hundred years from now? We do not know, but we know many
will be overturned. That is how the advancement of scientific knowledge operates.
It is a fluid ever changing dynamic.

Judgment is a ego-based trap, whether you are judging me as being an intellectual
coward (based on scant evidence and more likely an emotional response) or judgment
about current scientific findings. Our knowledge base is changing at an accelerating
rate. I have found over a lifetime that the more open minded and less opinionated
I remain, the more I am able experience and appreciate.

It is most likely that many a zen master would advise that we do remain at the beginning
of the journey to wisdom as reduce the human tendency toward arrogance and egoism