Our knowledge of the universe is always expanding, it has been pretty much since the basic principles of science were first accepted and shared among humanity. I'm sure that while we'll never have all the answers, we'll get a lot more insight into how things happened as time goes on.
However, while science is the best way of explaining how, it cannot answer why. Most especially, why out of all the species on our planet does Humanity seem to be the only one interested in asking these questions? Why have humans developed the desire, the need to know more about our world than just "what am I going to eat today"?
It actually coems quite naturally. Every species is, by nature, very curious. Curiosity is both a good thing, and a bad thing. All animals, especially as kids, want to explore anything and see what it does. That is how they learn. For example, they eat something, it tastes bad. Now they know not to eat it. They pick up a rock, and throw at something. That something is scared. They know learn something that benefits the species as a whole. That is how, for one, we developed tools.
Humans weren't much more intelligent then monkies originally. We were very curious, and daring. The reason we have coem so far, is because we are curious and work in groups. That gave us the upperhand over other animals. A long time ago, we mainly ate greens. However, our curiosity made us stalk other animals, and allow us to see what they ate. We also stalked other animals, and see where they hid their food, and stole it. Lions, tigers etc. tend to do this. So stealing their food gave us an additional food resource, meat, which gave our brain more proteins etc. that it need. That allowed or brain to grow. Over the ages, we found things in the nature that could help us. By slowly developing new tools, and teach the next generation how to get food, and how to make those tools, it allowed our brain to grow even more, and eventually, we could hunt our own food, and also hunt other predators and dangers away fom the rest of the group, further increasing our chance of survival. There were several other human-like creatures that were developed, but due to our brutal nature and strong sense of territory, we killed them. Humans keep what's ours, and when we grow too large to live on the territory we own, we go hunt more. You either win, or you lose. If you lose, you suddenly lost a lot of members of the tribe, and you're now small enough to live on the territory you own. If you win, you made your territory larger, thus giving you an edge over others. Eventually, we took over.
Also, I might sound like an asshole, or like I speak bad of women when I say this (but I'm really not, trust me), men are what drives the species forward. Women stay at pretty much the same mental level, with only a few changes, when women have a much wider mental health. That's why there's more male criminals then female criminals, while there's also more male geniouses, then female geniouses. The criminals tend to get pushed out of the group and die an earlier death, while the geniouses have a larger chance of survival, and will also most likely develop a new tool, or other means to help the group out.
The bible describes mankind as being created "In God's image". Most literal interpreters of the bible (Christian or not) interpret that as meaning the Bible says God is some dude in the sky that looks like us. Critics of the bible like to drive that point home repeatedly. To me, however, being made in God's image doesn't mean the physical, but rather the metaphysical. Humans were given the ability to reason, and that is what makes them like God. This was God's true gift to us, the "spark of life" given to Adam in bible mythos. God wants us to question our world, to look critically at the evidence before us and come to our own conclusions. If he didn't then we'd still be in the jungles poking sticks into anthills for dinner.
The way I see it, there's really no reason to live by 100% by the rules of the bible.
that is what's stupid. A friend of mine said that God created man to worship him, and those that don't, are banished to hell for being ungreatfull. However, if God is really that insecure of himself, that he needs to create us just so he can feel better about himself, is that really a god you want to worship? Additionally, his preaches of "Thou shalt not believe in any god but me", makes me wonder if there are other gods that he's jelous of. If there are no other gods, he wouldn't have anything to worry about, now would he?
There's also the chance that he want to see who is stupid enough to follow everything he says. Life is, after all, like a giant test. God might be testing us, and if we follow our own will, we'll get his respect. After all, a lot of people use people, and respect people that stand up to them and refuse to take their shit. If God made us in his own image, he have the very same flaws humans do, and should thus be more respecting. Personally, I don't believe in God, nor do I believe he'll banish anyone who don't to hell. That would be very hypocritical of him.
