“The Evolution Of Ideas”
Technology, as we know, is an intricate mix of both the evolution of ideas, coupled with intelligence and engineering.
We discern this happening right before our eyes. Mankinds understanding, his insights and fundamental assumptions constantly evolve. After research, trial and error, truth can be seen to be found in the realities of our technological progress.
The speed at which technology has advanced over the last century is breathtaking. Imagine trying to explain to someone alive two hundred years ago what we today are capable of inventing and building. How would we begin to explain the developments of modern communication, computers, mobile technology, medicine, mobility, media, agriculture, finance, industry?
Such evolution in science and technology, has led to the development of advances in several disciplines; electrical and mechanical engineering, materials development, design, architecture, function, programming. One established concept, evolves with ingenuity and experiment into another. Only a blithering idiot would suggest the whole process took place by accident.
The process represents the gradual evolution of knowledge. The accrued application of insight, ingenuity and construction, give rise to an ever increasing complexity and function. We see this process in most human endeavours. This reality is fundamental to to all the technological progress man has made over the centuries. These are the foundations of our own technological future.
Now, try and project mankinds progress over 2,000 years, 50,000 years, even longer. The progressive evolution of ideas, application and construction could take us to a place even our wildest imagination couldn’t be able to conceive at the moment.
It would be entirely reasonable to conclude that the realities of our existence are the result of the evolving nature of some one else’s technological past. This earth, life and we humans exist in complex grandeur. It would not be hard to imagine that a race of extraordinarily developed intelligent beings have developed the understanding and skills needed to produce life.
Put the two processes together. First, scientific evolution, the gradual development and accumulation of knowledge. And then, the conception, design, and construction of an environment, with conditions necessary for encapsulating life, a biosphere if you like, where an ever evolving complexity of designed life could be be developed and placed.
Consider mankind, the pinnacle of our known creation. We must be the product of an evolving intellect of infinitely greater insight and understanding than we as a race can comprehend. We humans are an incredibly advanced creation, an “artificial intelligence.”
We have no right to judge our creators until we understand why they made us, what is our purpose, and what do they want us to accomplish. Their intellect is infinitely more developed than ours. Considering the aeons of time it would have taken to develop the necessary understanding needed to create such an amazing biosphere as life, it defies reason and logic to conclude that our makers did not know what they were doing.
Science is the search for an understanding of the realities we face. It is not a guessing game, driven by our frailties, our whims and our fancies. If it doesn’t work, we discard it. It would be the sum of all stupidity to let the arrogance and the ignorance bigoted, short sighted men impede our search for truth. If it works, build on it.