Every so often it’s worth stepping back and asking why this blog exists at all. Kelvin’s Clouds has never been a fixed position so much as an ongoing journey, and this page is my attempt to update the map of where that journey currently stands.

Religion is not a fringe interest that some of us happen to have picked up along the way. It shows up in nearly every human society, in every era we have records for. The real question is what to make of that constancy. Is it simply the byproduct of an overactive agency-detection instinct — the same reflex that makes us see intention in a rustling bush — or is it evidence that we are picking up on something transcendent that actually exists? Given what we currently understand, both remain live possibilities.