In his column on Tuesday "I want no part of God or Naledi", Tom Eaton identified himself as an atheist, then concluded "One day we'll be like Homo naledi - nothing at all". Nothing at all. That fits, I suppose. Atheism leads to nothing at all, doesn't it?If the end is nothing, then the whole grand story of evolution - where Homo naledi leads to Archimedes and Einstein - is pointless.This type of conclusion is dull and unimaginative and so out of sync with the story of evolution itself.I completely get your list of contradictions and the self-serving, self-promoting ignorance and hubris that gives rise to them; especially the "imaginary borders" round "imaginary places" which get defended to the death so senselessly.Isn't it time, then, that we dropped those imaginary "I am this!" identities - atheist, Christian, Muslim - that get defended quite stupidly and so often to the death of both meaning and life?The curing of brain death in the future or the possibility of heaven in the future (some consider both) might well set a compass bearing for how we think and act now.But both are so much pie in the sky if, now, whichever imaginary identity we dress up in, we suffer from "gigantic ignorance", defensive intolerance and a failure of imagination...