"Transcendentalism, especially when reinforced by religious faiith, is psychically full and rich, it feels somehow right … (But) Science has always defeated religious dogma point by point whenever the two have conflicted. But to no avail. While empiricism wins the mind, transcendentalism wins the heart …
Still, if history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology … The eventual result of the competition between the two world views, I believe, will be the secularization of the human epic and of religion itself," – E. O. Wilson, Consilience.
The Dish 