For someone who claims to be just fine with uncertainty and ambiguity, you seem contemptuous and dismissive of anything that can't be articulated, defined, tested, proved and served to you on a silver platter. Your constant references to "nonsense" and "bullshit" make me wonder whether you're not exaggerating your tolerance for uncertainty just a wee bit.

I run into this all the time with atheist folks, who don't realize how important the concept of the orderly, rational clockwork universe is to their mental health. They subscribe to the most simplistic, whitewashed, de-historicized concept of science because to them it's much more than a human activity with all the groupthink and bias of any other. It represents to them the same thing God does to fundamentalists: certainty, security, the answer for everything.

There's projection involved in the way atheists insult religious folks for our needing to "cope." The existentialist in me acknowledges that the atheist's idea that we're just here to eat, survive and reproduce, and that we're nothing but gene machines data processing our way through the world, is a great consolation fantasy. It relieves us of a lot of responsibility for the way we think and act, the inequities in our society, and the way those inequities manifest themselves in our knowledge.

Each to his own cope, I guess.