Socrates understood. We have limits but some are easy to grasp:
- Our senses perceive only a narrow band of visible light and audible sound.
- The accepted beginning of the cosmos, the big bang, is a barrier that prevents us from knowing anything about the pre-created state of the universe.
- Despite theories about what lies outside space-time, the human brain is constructed from the materials produced in space and time.
- The visible universe is less than 10% of the total matter and energy in creation. The rest is “dark” because it doesn’t obey the known laws of nature.
Most people are content to live with these limitations, but there is a percentage of humans that are so ignorant and fearful they must make things up to believe in. For example, some people still are wallowing in the banana oil of thinking that the results of the last presidential election were manipulated by some great conspiracy. They really know nothing! (And some are running our government, Yikes!)
This Teachable Moment brought to you by the last remaining vestige of sanity in American politics: