Pearce Deacon
1 min readSep 25, 2020

Does lightning exist? It is something we have observed for eons, but only recently have we understood it. How about microbes? The very opposite; only recently could we even see them. Your first comment I can write off as an irrational non-scientific slip. This response is more troublesome. You are just replacing one irrational dogma for another that you claim, without any real evidence, to be superior. That is not science. Which is fine. As you pointed out in your article, science cannot answer questions of meaning.

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