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Every fact recorded here carries a status: settled, debated, unresolved, or simply unknown. Counted by subject, the highest recorded share of debated claims in the atlas does not sit on theology. Right now it sits on entries about wars and conflicts.

A Rate, Not a Feeling

Among subjects with enough recorded claims to compare fairly, entries about wars and conflicts carry the highest share marked debated of any type in the atlas, just ahead of the chakra system, prophecy and religious events, which cluster close behind each other. Doctrine sits far lower, and ritual lower still. Read as a rate rather than a raw count, the atlas argues with itself roughly six times more often about a war or a conflict than it does about doctrine. That is a fact about what has been recorded and checked so far, not a claim that war is more genuinely contested than God.

Where the Arguments Concentrate

The individual entries carrying the most competing claims right now include six of the seven chakras at once, Crown, Sacral, Throat, Third Eye, Heart and Root each holding several, alongside Zhang Daoling, the founder of religious Daoism whose own historical existence and dates are argued on more than one front, and Juan Diego, the visionary of Guadalupe, whose historicity has been argued since the eighteenth century. Founders and origin stories keep resurfacing at the top of this list, which says as much about what is hard to settle as any single subject does.

Where To Read More

• CrownThe single most-argued chakra in the record
• RootAnother of the chakras carrying several open claims at once
• James OssuaryOther ArtifactsA single object with several unresolved claims of its own
• ZarathustraProphetsHis lifetime is recorded under two dates a millennium apart