If you look in the history books, we have always tried to work out where we have come from. Either through religion or science. We seem to be obsessed about it.
But why wouldn't we be "meant" to find out? I can understand a religious person saying this, but if you're agnostic or an atheist then you are saying there is meaning to all this and something is in charge of what we should and shouldn't know.
Well, think of it this way. If you could with out a doubt, prove or disprove Creationism, then imagine the world we'd live in? A lot of money goes into religion, that suddenly being cut out would be disastrous for the economy and then on the flip side of that coin, what if Darwinism was wrong all along? And we were created and there is a heaven and a hell. Imagine millions, no billions of people, who when they die are going to Hell because of their beliefs. What would be the point of making amends? Society would collapse in on itself because there would no longer be any consequences. Murder, rape, torture, you're gonna go to Hell anyways so why would you care?
Does anyone else share this belief?
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I think it's mankinds drive.
If you look in the history books, we have always tried to work out where we have come from. Either through religion or science. We seem to be obsessed about it.
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Yeah I agree with that, the pursuit of knowledge is perhaps mankind's greatest driving factor
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But I also think, we're not meant to find out. If we did, it would drive us mad.
So we keep on searching for an answer we'll never find.
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But why wouldn't we be "meant" to find out? I can understand a religious person saying this, but if you're agnostic or an atheist then you are saying there is meaning to all this and something is in charge of what we should and shouldn't know.
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Well, think of it this way. If you could with out a doubt, prove or disprove Creationism, then imagine the world we'd live in? A lot of money goes into religion, that suddenly being cut out would be disastrous for the economy and then on the flip side of that coin, what if Darwinism was wrong all along? And we were created and there is a heaven and a hell. Imagine millions, no billions of people, who when they die are going to Hell because of their beliefs. What would be the point of making amends? Society would collapse in on itself because there would no longer be any consequences. Murder, rape, torture, you're gonna go to Hell anyways so why would you care?
That is something else I find fascinating, the idea that the answers may be beyond our comprehension, it's almost lovecraftian