QUOTE : How did we get here? What is our purpose in being here? Where will we be after we die? Of course, primitive peoples – and many not so primitive – are unaware that these questions are perhaps faulty in the very manner of their formulation. It is inconceivable to such people that we very likely “got” here by natural rather than supernatural means; that there is no “purpose” to our existence beyond the goals we envision for ourselves; that life ends utterly upon our deaths. When the advance of human knowledge presents answers such as these, many individuals rebel against them – not because they are not true (they are indeed overwhelmingly likely to be true), but because they are not the answers they hope for. The conclusions are rejected not because they are false, but because they are unpalatable.