Thanks Aaron. This one came about because of an ongoing... debate? Discussion?... ah fuck it... argument. Ongoing argument my husband and I have over religion.
We both were raised Catholic. Met in Catholic high school. Married in a Catholic church. I'd have to say for the majority of our (as of this week) 31 years of marriage we were lackadaisical. We didn't always go to church. More so when we had kids, but it was never a big deal if we skipped.
I've never had a strong belief. Even when I was a kid. My husband is convinced he had a divine experience when he was in an car accident and bounced off a dump truck. He's convinced he should have died. I'm convinced it was his shitty driving and he got lucky. The car was drivable, he just scraped the hell out of the side.
But anyway, over the past 10 years my belief has firmly become cemented on the side of there is no god(lots of reasons for this- pm me if you want to discuss). His is the opposite and he has actually become more devout than he has ever been. It's created some tension at times.
During one of our arguments he kept challenging me to give him reasons to back up my theories. After all, he had the Bible. LOL.
So, much of Jordan's research is my own. And to me it makes sense. Maybe not to others, and that's okay. Everyone is entitled to believe what they want.