Originally Posted by Mordred
Knowing the unknowable would only impede their ability to do these things.


I know, I'm spamming the board today. And now by replying even to myself! shocked

But my point above about unknowable things sprung to mind a famous quote from Roger Zelazny's book, Lord of Light.

It is the difference between the unknown and the unknowable, between science and fantasy - it is a matter of essence. The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.

I guess this is my point about agnosticism and what I will accept as possibility versus what I will accept as fact. I won't bow before something which I see as a vague maybe. Consider, yes. Accept wholly, no.