I think humanity has a sort of built-in attraction for the "unexplained". I know some intelligent people who are definitively capable of skepticism (they ask th

I think humanity has a sort of built-in attraction for the "unexplained". I know some intelligent people who are definitively capable of skepticism (they ask themselves the right questions when buying a car, or a house) but they seem to "lower their guard" when presented with, frankly, quite obvious quackery. Every time I have been presented with "evidence" for the paranormal, I can always come up with rational explanations almost immediately. It often boils down to "that person must be lying" or "this is clearly a forgery". Yet I still feelt the attraction from "the unexplained". After all, all discoveries have been done after grappling with it. And discovery is good - it increases survival, so your genes get passed down. I fortunately found a way to channel those energies in a more satisfying (to me) way: science! It turns out if you look at the borders of what we know, you will find lots of interesting and exciting mysteries. In Astronomy, Dark Matter and Dark Energy are two examples of unexplained mysteries. On the other side of the spectrum, there's Quantum Physics, where reality becomes "pixellated" and our intuition stops working, there's lots of unexplained stuff. Questions like "what is Gravity, really" or "what is time". Every new answer we get opens 2 or 3 new questions. We are still far away from implementing practical Nuclear Fusion, which would be really helpful with climate change tbh. How do we overcome the Coulomb Barrier and make deuterium atoms produce energy in a way we can use? In biology, we are currently deciphering how DNA works. It's a whole programming language and operative system originated from Nature itself, without a conscious inventor behind it. Isn't that neat? And how the hell are we supposed to make sense of it. It's like a big hack. We will need computers to make even partial sense of all of it. Speaking of computers. We are doing advances in AI, but we are still far away from "Real" AI. But Nature somehow managed to do it in less than 2 kilograms of biomass. In Math, if you dig a little deep, things get just weird, fast. Just, pick a favorite. (Mine is Russells Paradox). Most of these mysteries you cannot encounter just by walking on a dark alley. You have to work in order to even understand them. You can (in theory) validate everything yourself (admittedly, no one does this, we all walk upon the shoulders of giants). Instead of ouija table to talk with the spirits, you use a telescope, and a bunch of math, to try to figure out a puzzle set up by the Universe. Once I started doing this, I found I didn't "need" the supernatural.