Beyond Belief - Universal Sloth

Have you ever seen a sloth? They are a fascinating type of monkey found in jungles. Have you ever thought about how a sloth thinks about his surroundings? A sloth sees his immediate surrounding (his earth and universe) and thinks that it is all there is that exists. But upon further moving around and discovering things he comes to find out that there is something outside the jungle. There are other "universes" out there. He sees all these little bugs and plants in his immediate surroundings and thinks he knows it all.

We seem to find ourselves like sloths thinking that just because we discover more and more that everything we know or will know is all that there is. Our fundamental base is our knowledge, our techniques of learning, nature's laws, etc. This is our base from which everything is built on. This is our Turtle which our other turtles rest on, and on and on, until we have our earth and us. Paul Davis makes a great point that we all have to reduce things down to something in which we put our faith. For scientists it is nature's laws, physics, scientific theories, etc. For others it is something metaphysical. It seems that people aren't satisfied with sciences explanations, because there are so many things that we experience that cannot be explained. The power in so many religions has not been explained, and that is why so many people still stick with there faith and do not turn to science even though most scientists try to explain away religion.

We all have our Levitating Turtles, it is just a matter of which we choose. Some seem more logical than others, but others seem to answer the inner questions that arise about the unknown. I don't think the Levitating Turtle of science will replace the Levitating Turtle of religions until science can totally explain the Deja Vu's, the out of body experiences, the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and all the other experiences that people have in their religions.