Heh! ;-) Yeah, I can imagine it must be like the red flag to the bull. Sorry about that.

It's not that I'm trying to frustrate anyone by saying that some things are unanswerable in scientific terms (and I do think that is true of some things). I'm simply talking about something that really interests me, that's all. I accept the fact that some things cannot be answered by science (or physical observation of phenomena, to put it another way)...just as we can't completely explain the mystery of love, for example, by science although we do experience it powerfully.

Earlier in my life I wanted to explain everything through science, logic, deduction, and observation...and that was how I approached things. I had no interest in spirituality back then.

Later I became more interested in the non-material aspects of life, the stuff than cannot be proven or disproven through any means of outer observation, but that is experienced within the individual's own consciusness, and that coincided with my interest in spirituality, love, religious concepts, poetry, philosophy, etc.

What led me there? Listening to songs by great songwriters...and the joys and sorrows of falling in love with various women. I encountered challenges that simply couldn't be nailed down by scientific observation or logic...and it ended up seeming more important to me (strictly on my own personal level) than all the stuff that can be nailed down and thereby "proven" or "disproven".

Don't blame it on the church! The church had nothing to do with it. ;-) Blame it on Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, and the various young women who broke my heart. They are what made me end up looking for stuff science simply can't provide answers to.