Strip away the division between religion and science, or more accurately, what is commonly referred to as religion and science.

The Snake always eats the smaller snakes.

Zooming in to the microscopic level, the quantum level, there still lies the blatant division between matter and spirit. There is still a quantum chasmic threshold of reality and simulation.

Matter is an imaginary construct of Spirit. It is simulation.

Spirit/consciousness engenders intelligence, creativity, curiosity, playfulness and storytelling.

The atheist must admit this. He simply substitutes the religionist's visceral belief for a more defined explanation grounded in the discovery of dissecting matter.

He is like the ant climbing the mountain and investigating all the material he interacts with along the way - the individual blades of grass, the chemical compositions and structures of the soil. As he continues to climb toward the peak of magnification, there is less and less material to discover. Yet he must press his searching abilities to the limits of his technology and capabilities.

For quantum level, and the failure to grasp understanding it, the failure to 'quantize' it, to collate it into the drawer of accomplished understanding, this leaves only abdication of the triumph of Spirit......or God, the Snake.

Stories in religion are all composed of metaphors. But metaphors are no more unreal than concrete explanations of reality. In a way, they are even more accurate than scientific explanations because they more easily attribute matter's existence, or non-existence, to Spirit. It's like taking the short cut. Saves a lot of trouble in the end.

Don't get entangled, there's not much time.

Steven Joseph Christopher 4/13/46 R.E.