Angels and demons

This is a recurring theme in human history. 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates of Kos, considered the Father of Medicine, is credited as the first person to believe that diseases were caused naturally, not because of superstition and gods, and created a whole field of medicine separate from religion. It is essential to understand that humans have struggled to separate our beliefs and facts for as long as we can remember. We are entitled to our own beliefs, but we are not entitled to our facts. Each of us has our narrative of the world, but arguing the merits of gravity isn’t going to push the cannon forward of understanding, which is the key to our future prosperity. Hippocrates wrote, “Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine, which they do not understand, why there would be no end of divine things.” Hippocrates may not have had the term for it, but he described it as more intellectual debt.