Indeed: There is no third causal alternative that I can see.
Perhaps if such folks could be disabused of the widely prevailing notion nowadays that faith and reason, science and philosophy (including theology, the "queen of metaphysics") are necessarily mutually-exclusive, basic intellectual sanity could be restored. They are not mutually-exclusive: This notion posits a false dichotomy. What they are instead, are complementary knowledge domains — which have been mutually assisting one another for some seven millennia by now.
This I suppose would be news to those people who hold human history in so much contempt that evidently they believe the world only started on the day they were born....
Thank you for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ!
betty: This I suppose would be news to those people who hold human history in so much contempt
Spirited: But then time (unfolding story of history) itself is one of their primary enemies.
God the Father called all things into existence, set celestial bodies in motion and time began to tick away the days and the story of history to unfold. Its’ unfolding had one end and no other: the Kingdom of God.
Thus history itself is therefore an enemy. How to escape? By turning time back upon itself. By uncreating history/reality/mankind(Darwinism), Nietzsche’s eternal return, reincarnation.