Dear Paul,

This question of the material existence or otherwise of angels, is better addressed to material science, of which I am not an expert.

Jordan Peterson says that religion compares the society of man with an idealized society. In a similar way Sanzio Raphael compares Aristotle with Plato and experimental truth with abstract truth in his painting The School Of Athens.

Maybe heaven is not another place but another time, where our future selves look back to us today.

And what a time it must have been.
The School of Athens - a magnificent painting
in a splendid architectural setting in which the
artist even infuses a self portrait into the
artwork.

The Vatican must surely be a place filled with
treasures, past and present. Would these treasures,
these works of art and atchitecture have existed
without religion?

I probably won't say this again, but Kudos Foxy.