The short answer is no.
The longer answer is still no, but what you believe to be true after 500 years of reductive materialism and what we call science is also heavily flawed - almost as flawed as believing in horoscopes.
The really long answer is that the story-telling of spirit, religion, science, and poetry are stages in understanding, leading towards better understanding if we don't destroy ourselves first, and that better understanding is stranger than anything we'd probably care to think about.
So if anyone wants to start a journey down some never-ending rabbit-holes, that will probably make you wish you'd never asked, and leave you feeling like you're in Edvard Munch's "Scream", then let me know on private message (I'll take all my filters down in a few minutes), and I'll send you something that is pure philosophy and science, and it will also probably make you poop yourself with what it would mean, taken to its conclusions.
Which are entirely devoid of anything spiritual or religious.
They're far stranger than that.
And that would be the very, very tip of the iceberg of what you could learn, but it won't necessarily be much fun for you.
So it's simpler to keep it as an occasional topic of conversation that means little more than passing the time.
But if you're a curious cat, I'll give you something.
A pre-starter, as it were, for a meal that will be very hard to digest.
A tiny taster - Newton (bit of a dick in most ways) didn't develop his physics and maths for the sake of science.
He developed them (mostly) because he was trying to interpret prophecy.
What I'll send you isn't about Newton. Because he was an unpleasant dick.
What I'll send you is 1 percent of 1 percent of 1 percent of grappling with uncomfortable questions.
Safest to go with the short answer - "No - it's all mumbo jumbo".
For anyone who wants to say "Yes, but answer this Nick..." on this thread - that's a poor spend of my time. Ain't gonna play that game. Soz.
But if you want more, message me, I'll send you a link, and once you've read what's on that link, and developed questions from it, then I'll invest more time with you.
It really is simpler to go "Mumbo-Jumbo" though.
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