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Value the Uncertainty
Good stuff written already, but let me add my take:
Without controlled reproducible verification, no decisive conclusion can be drawn about supernatural phenomena one way or the other. That means we’re left to our own interpretations based on our own empirical experience and shaped by our own brain’s filters.
Because of this, it’s impossible to prove any one person’s belief is more valid than anyone else’s. Being dogmatic is inappropriate under these circumstances and doesn’t serve. Remaining flexible in our own opinions and tolerant of others’ does serve. It helps find new wisdom and a deeper understanding of what we do believe. And to get there, uncertainty is required. As soon as we’re certain of our answers, or believe in someone else's answers, our own wisdom is trumped. We’re stop growing.
Science doesn’t have the answers (which isn’t to say it never will), but science seeks knowledge, The payoff of spirituality is not knowledge but wisdom. Asking the questions without requiring answers, exploring the mysteries of life that have no answers, this is where wisdom is found.
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