At the same time, a generation or two ago as well now, we know more than we did 1-3 thousand years ago and more than the during the Salam Witch Trials, etc, when our first attempts at explaining these things became cemented in dogma, etc. (First attempts are usually the most wrong ones.) But as they say, you're not going to reason someone out of a belief they weren't reasoned into in the first place. so all I'm doing is sharing my point of view, not trying to make anyone else see it that way.

Even if we don't know now, we at least know with some confidence what isn't.

It's like if someone was taking a multiple-choice test and they were sure the answer was A. But then later they realized it probably actually isn't A. They still don't know if it's B or C or D or all the way to Z, but just knowing that it's not A, is progress in and of itself and pretty exciting and we can get to work on looking at other options/possibilities and testing those ideas, how they would work, what they look like, etc.

In my view, I think a thousand years from now, we will be even further removed from these early explanations that we are still trying to hold on to.