The more we discover the more we uncover the things we don’t know.
I can only think of the words of Donald Rumsfeld:
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.And we keep pressing on because that is our nature. It’s in our nature to continually ask those questions and seek out the answers.
Perhaps that is our purpose.
I have often considered if we will ever reach an end to understanding. Can we reach its end? Can we ever really know everything?
What would happen to our society if or when we do?
I can’t help but imagine that if we were ever to reach that point, literally everything would come crashing down. It would be the beginning of the end for all of mankind.
What happened to humans in Clarke's Childhood's End or Asimov's The Last Question? Our fate and purpose have been pondered by people before us. Clarke said perhaps our purpose is not to worship God but to create him. If a person believes Jesus is divine, then Mary was a co-creator, so the idea is not all that outlandish.
I would agree that it is our purpose (to seek the truth).
Something uniquely Human to be sure.
But even as Clarke and Asimov may have suggested, the Creation of the supernatural in ones mind doesn’t put an end to the continuation of our purpose.
Science and Christianity are on parallel tracks that are both seeking a truth.
A definitive.
Can you imagine a world in which the scientists tell us that everything that can be known is known?
What do you think that would do to our purpose?