Actually, one is more probable than the other, based on observable facts. Maintaining one belief requires a lot more effort than the other. In fact, one is a belief, the other is the most logical conclusion a rational person can come to based on the available information.
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I'll tell you one thing: that one scene from The Name of the Rose movie will live on in my mind for eternity. When I tell you I was 15 when I saw that movie, you'll know which scene I mean. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge...
Looking back, I think Foucault's Pendulum was my first clue to the pointlessness of the temple rituals. As an adolescent, I was very much caught up in the pseudo-intellectual world of esoteric mumbo-jumbo so the ending of that novel hit me like a ton of bricks. It took me years to figure out what it meant (nothing, duh).