The Unfilled Gaps in Post-Arwinian Theory

We're not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery in awe. We do not believe in heaven or hell, yet no statistic will ever find that without these blandishments and threats we commit more crimes of greed or violence than the faithful. Literature and not scripture sustained the mind; there is no other metaphor also the soul. If a proper statistical inquiry could ever be made, I'm sure the evidence would be the other way. The serious ethical dilemmas are better handled by Shakespeare and Tolstoy,. Schiller and George Gevsky and George Eliot rather than in the mythical morality tales of the holy books. It's at least possible that once people accepted their short and struggling lives