This chapter explores the conflict between science and religion as they are internalized within human nature. Like the two-faced Roman god Janus, humanity retains two peculiar aspects of themselves—a desire for rationality and a desire for the supernatural.
The clash between these two aspects of human nature could not be deeper or more profound: religions change the evidence to fit their ideas; sciences change their ideas to fit the evidence. These two are radically different approaches to reality and the discovery of any new, countervailing evidence.
So, to be Janus-faced is to be truly divided. Yet humanity does not stand at a crossroads, as if we could choose between science and religion once and for all. Rather, we carry in our dual natures both the power of objective rationality and the knowledge of a weird realm longed-for and perceived obliquely.
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