>>World is too large to fall back to "I only believe what my own eyes have seen in nature/the wild" and for some things (like virus spikes, DNA sequences, red shift...) my eyes simply are not good enough ;-)
Understood, we need the unseen, the unknown and the unprovable.
In 1798 someone called that:
"The willing suspension of disbelief for the moment that constitutes poetic faith."
Every time a young child hears Goldilocks or Hansel and Gretel for the first time that happens.
I fill that need with music, art, or poetry.
While others are watching Fox or CNN, I might be listening to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFzViYkZAz4As JR pointed out, I'm probably stuck in another era.
That's OK. It's nice here.
Anyone who does not go overboard- deserves to.
Malcolm Forbes, Sr.