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To: one_less who wrote (82317)	2/2/2010 11:07:30 PM
From: Solon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 82486

"You could pick up a book of wisdom or scripture and be convinced you have a proper guide worked out" I would rather pick up a book of wisdom than a book of scripture... "But satisfaction or satiation of curiosity does not seem to be a permanent state for breathing human beings" Not surprising. Ignorance is an essential aspect of being alive as a human. (Sort of like having lungs). If you are alive, you ARE ignorant. In order to survive one must substitute awareness or knowledge for ignorance. For instance: learn to kill the moose, learn to butcher the moose (learn to create a sharp-edged cutting instrument), learn to preserve the moose (will salt work?)--and so forth. Survival of the species is an evolutionary template. The preservation of ignorance (as in "my curiosity is forever satiated) does not satisfy this observable fact. The human race would quickly die out. "The implication is, we are given an incomplete condition by design and wonder as a tool to deal with that condition, with a desire to perceive things as whole or more complete, if even for a moment, until we begin". Nonsense. Firstly, you are stating an INFERENCE--YOUR INFERENCE. And I must tell you that "we are given an incomplete condition by design and wonder" is a leap in the dark. It is an inference without any basis in fact. Why should you infer that an "incomplete condition" (imperfection) is "given" to us? Why should you infer that imperfection (ignorance) is "by design"? You simply ASSUME a Creator and then pretend to have proven it by argument. "Wonder" is the asking of questions. That an entity with a brain and the power of language should ask questions is not surprising to me and it does not imply design.

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