Denial #5
The vast majority of the people who have ever made an airplane journey have never heard of Bernoulli's principle. Those who do may only have some cursory knowledge of it. Nevertheless, everyone is able to enjoy a safe flight with total ignorance.
We are able to "outsource" the knowledge of the principle of flight, and yet utilize the consequential benefits. We do not reject the principle of flight even though we may not know anything about it.
However, should anyone be interested to know how planes fly to the details necessary to build his own plane, it requires some serious learning effort. So is a subject such as quantum physics. Everyone can agree you cannot master it in a day.
If you have studied quantum mechanics for a year and still don't get it, do you ridicule it and say quantum mechanics is humbug?
But many learned scientists when making no headway after reading the Bible for 20 minutes declare the Bible as gibberish, a work of fiction. Or if they find "contradictions", they rubbish the Bible instead of admitting they do not understand or have not researched enough. And many would be like the
Space Invader, questioning why God did this or that.
It is unreasonable to demand that the meaning and purpose of life can be explained in a sound bite.
While there's a 101 class for the Bible, it would take many years of study to reach level 10.
The 101 for the lesson of life is simply a very very cryptic "God created man, man sinned and is damned to eternal suffering, except for those who accept that God's son died to pardon their sins." It is initially incomprehensible, just like Bernoulli's principle. All you need to enjoy the benefits of life is same as that needed to enjoy the benefits of flight - just believe. You then can spend the rest of your life learning more.
Just like quantum mechanics cannot be mastered in a day, do you acknowledge that to get a serious understanding of the meaning of life it would require more than a trivial effort?
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