Chapter 1�The Metaphysical World the Church Inherited
Every child enters a world not of their choosing. Family, landscape, language, and the deep assumptions that explain how and why things are the way they are�all of these are already in place before a newborn draws its first breath. Even the fact of existence is astonishing: one sperm cell out of nearly one hundred million succeeds in reaching one of the roughly three hundred thousand eggs a mother carries. A fraction of a second�s difference,