So, just what are we talking about?

[kandrathe]

:) What I look at is how people explain the unexplainable. Gods of thunder, gods of lightning now debunked and explained by science. But, still somethings defy easy scientific explanation, and at that point us skeptics put their faith in that science will eventually be able to crack that nut as well. As I like to think of it, the religion of modernity. We have accomplished so much with our new "science" that we believe that it is all logical, all rational, all explainable, or at least most of what we can sense.

My curiousity though leads to beyond that, to those things that may be beyond human comprehension, beyond human senses. So, I wonder if we have perhaps anthropomorphized the universe. It might just be much, much more complicated than we think it is. While our increase in knowledge over the past centuries has been astounding, I think perhaps, maybe it is only an inch of a mile. It would not be the first time in history that we have been guilty of human arrogance, and sometimes I suspect unless we check our egos and quit playing "god" with this planet, it will be the death of us all. Or, perhaps, we are heedless of the impact of our massed individuality, and that unless we wake up and start to play god with the planet, we are doomed.

Either way, we are doomed. :)