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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 66319" data-attributes="member: 126"><p>Re: You're welcome.</p><p></p><p>It should become obvious that we (humans) are not equipped with the mental capacity to wholly understand the natural world around us. As a coping mechanism we create myths and/or other simpler explanations so that we can move beyond the big questions and pay attention to more pressing smaller immediate concerns. The caveman too busy pondering his existence to pay attention to his environment, got eaten. </p><p></p><p>We will not resolve this here, but it might help to consider that we are all ignorant to some degree. Some are not comfortable with that and prefer having a relatively complete story to believe. Different strokes.... I'm OK with knowing I don't understand everything. In fact I'm pretty used to it from life's many (IQ) tests. </p><p></p><p>While we can argue about where the line is between observed science and belief systems, does that really matter? Life is short and this is one of those unanswerable questions that our ancestors argued over, without much success either. </p><p></p><p>JR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 66319, member: 126"] Re: You're welcome. It should become obvious that we (humans) are not equipped with the mental capacity to wholly understand the natural world around us. As a coping mechanism we create myths and/or other simpler explanations so that we can move beyond the big questions and pay attention to more pressing smaller immediate concerns. The caveman too busy pondering his existence to pay attention to his environment, got eaten. We will not resolve this here, but it might help to consider that we are all ignorant to some degree. Some are not comfortable with that and prefer having a relatively complete story to believe. Different strokes.... I'm OK with knowing I don't understand everything. In fact I'm pretty used to it from life's many (IQ) tests. While we can argue about where the line is between observed science and belief systems, does that really matter? Life is short and this is one of those unanswerable questions that our ancestors argued over, without much success either. JR [/QUOTE]
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