Here we are coming to the end of the first decade of the 21st Century. We know more about the world, ourselves, and the universe than ever before and this knowledge is growing year on year.
Yet many in the West, with all its advantages of technology and universal education, still feel the need to hold to beliefs that the scientific and rational would consider "the comforts of unreason".
What is it about some humans that seems to desire an acceptance of something supernatural?