I was thinking about this thread today. It popped into my head as i was reading a future forecast in a book "The Spike"....anyhow. I thought about what we know now, as a race, compared to what our ancient ancestors knew. How blown away would they be by the internet? How impossible would it have sounded to them! How humbling would it be if we could be given a glimpse into our future (if we survive predicted climate change) how many things would seem miraculous? Can we really humble ourselves just for one minute to admit that we know nothing compared to the human race of a thousand years hence? Absolutely nothing?! of course we can't. We will proudly point to example of our knowledge; look at this laptop, look at this medicine, look at this camera that can tell when a specified person smiles and only take a picture at that precise moment (invented in Japan recently so we can all look forward to taking more successful photos of our babies!). We are so damn proud of ourselves hey? We are like primitives pointing proudly to our stick of fire.

If there is a God then we are just babes playing with fire in comparison. With the benefit of recorded history we can look backwards and say how clever we are... but are we really? I think a little humility goes a long way and the thing with atheism is that there is a denial of anything greater than ourselves. Maybe I am wrong but it seems to me that it is only via spirituality that people are encouraged to be humble? Please correct me if I am wrong. It just doesn't sit right with me that we, at this point of our development know all that there is to know.