Addicted to pointless beliefs, we fritter away the understanding of our true worth.

Our innate human need to believe, in something, is distracting humanity from understanding its true worth.

We fritter away our intellectual capacities on hollow beliefs and yet largely ignore scientifically demonstrable contrary values that underpin the scaffolding of life.
The former are, almost without exception, rooted in emotion while the latter emerge from a rational, reasonable and thoughtful approach to life.
Reason, ration and thought, despite what we say, demand that we take responsibility to sustain life in all its fragility as against indulging in pointless and frivolous beliefs that when exposed to close scientific examination desert us to make no contribution to the enrichment and wellbeing of life on earth.
Scientist and author, Marcelo Gleiser (above right), helps us understand that through the happy collision of various inanimate substances, chemicals and circumstances, life evolved on earth about 3.5 billion years ago and its resultant asymmetry produced, ultimately, our universe’s most intelligent life form, you and I.
Late in the 17th century humanity experienced the Age of Reason and then, in the following century, came the Age of Enlightenment that was really more about values than ideas and ignited a questioning of traditional institutions, customs, and morals, and a strong belief in rationality and science.
Humanity glimpsed freedom, but never did it escape from the shadow of superstition and it was only recently that those at Sydney’s Festival of Dangerous Ideas heard that Western modernity is threatened by a population expansion of the religious, an accelerating decline of liberal secularism and the rise of religious conservatism.
Gleiser argues for a new morality aimed at preserving life, noting that the most amazing fact about existence is that we are aware of it. “The most sobering is that, as with our ancestors, we remain alone as we contemplate creation.
He encourages us to come together as a species to fight for life and in closing, “Imperfect Creation”, Gleiser wrote: “We have a chance to change the course of things and salvage the world we grew up loving.
“Even if some have doubts as to how severe the upcoming storm will be, there will be a storm”, he wrote.