For at least 40,000 Homo sapiens has speculated as to the nature of the universe. Aurignacians and their successor cultures gave us cave art and lovingly buried their dead, Grave goods appeared, perhaps signifying a belief in afterlife. Shamans tried to understand by penetrating the human mind and journeying into the spirit world. Later on in Neolithic times we created the god concept, one or many, but omnipotent. Revealed religions, which are basically codified laws and legends appeared to try to explain things to a more sophisticated audience. We are still in that stage of developement now. Peope talk about the end of times, judgement day, the coming of Jesus, the Madhi or the Buddha of the future to set things right. We really haven't progressed from the shaman stage too much, infact there may be more validity in shamanism than the Abrahamic faiths. Today I talked to a man about the Middle East and what might be done to stop Jews and Palestinians from killing each other. There is nothing we can do, he said, it's predicted in the bible.
Mission specialist John Grunefeld, currently in space repairing Hubble said""We discovered in fact that all that stuff we thought we knew about accounts for only 4 percent of the known universe," Grunsfeld said. "Most of the universe is made up of what's called 'dark energy.' Nobody could have anticipated it. It's the largest constituent of the universe. We still have no idea what it is."
Dark energy, huh Very cool and we have no idea or only a 4% idea. of course fundamentalists will probably say the "dark" is Satan and it means the end of times is coming, probably find some quote in a holy book to vaguely back it up.
For me, its Glory be to God in the Highest, Alhamdulillah,....... we don't know shit.
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