A search for something, any way to preserve the scientific way of thinking without admitting its shortcomings. Often though, the explanations they offer to fill in the gaps require more than a bit of faith. This is where science becomes its own religion, asking people to do what it criticizes religion for doing.asking people to believe in the absence of concrete evidence, to believe what the man upstairs (in this case wearing a lab coat) tells them is true. So I wonder if science at its purest, untainted by intellectual pride and human presumption, would admit its own shortcomings and consider the presence of something beyond its own hands. For some the unknown is scary, dis organization is unsettling. To think the answers of the universe is beyond scientific grasp is a source of discomfort, to think those answers lie in another place, not of the world we know, is a source of fear. It is easier to constantly find answers that in themselves suggest that they are moving closer to total knowledge, that the answers are just a little deeper and all they have to do is keep digging.
This presumption that all things can be explained here on earth and can be understood and interpreted by us gives way to pride. If we can someday answer our own questions then who needs GOD? Paradoxically it is Hawking who speaks of GOD and His existence, but it is his goal to find all the answers, perhaps to know the mind of GOD; and Sagan who speaks of the absence of GOD, and considers the possibility that we cannot know everything. Seeing how Sagan's denial of the existence of GOD leads him to believe that not all things are knowable, and Hawking's consideration of GOD leads him to believe that there is a font of answers that can be known, makes me wonder. Does science subconsciously, as I said before, acknowledge the presence of something beyond and furthermore rely on it for the answers. Perhaps science believes in GOD but doesn't know it yet.
