It's interesting to think about how little we know about the world around us. We don't know if it was created, or if it just came into being by chance. We don't know if there's life elsewhere, or if earth is the only biosphere. In fact, we don't even know much about how our own brains work.
Individually, we know even less. What YOU know comes from your own experiences and however much attention you paid in school. You know a very specific, limited range of information and practical skills that allow you to - someday - hold down a job. Maybe you can derive that knowledge and invent something with it, driving innovation in your field of work. If you're REALLY smart, maybe you can derive it once more and start a new field of research. But probably not.
You will never be able to answer the most fundamental questions that we have as a species. You can be a philosopher, an engineer, a scientist, or a poet - it makes no difference. There are some things that we will never know.
Why is that? Because we are isomorphic life. We are in a state of existence somewhere between perfect order and total chaos, and were we to further our understanding of ourselves, we would move much closer to perfection. Perfection is paradoxical, because it removes the necessity of free will. Without free will, we are not human.
I believe that there is a God out there. This God knows all, controls all, and is everywhere, and I believe that within his system of creation, we are not meant to know certain things. Because of that, individually and as a species, we will remain ignorant.
The idea of perpetual ignorance is repugnant. Why would a benevolent creator limit our knowledge this way?
Two reasons. One: given certain knowledge, we could become like him. Two: given our nature, we would certainly destroy each other with that knowledge. Consider the hydrogen bomb.
Apparently, God really does know best.
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