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Yeah, I'm uncomfortable with the absolutist stance that all unproven concepts should remain in the realm of fantasy.
Ethics is full of "unproven concepts." That doesn't mean we should abolish human rights codes.
Science doesn't prove its theories like mathematics does. This doesn't mean there isn't any value, or that they are simply flights of fancy. Besides, not all aspects of all holy books are "easily refutable." It's futile to attempt to refute parables.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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