Would you dare?
Look into the eyes of God
And claim to understand His desires?
Would you dare?
Claim a seat at God’s table
An ant upon an equal throne?
To behold His will is to be Infinite.
To behold Infinity is to be God.
But you are an ant
Crawling upon His table
Understanding Nothing.
—
Reflections of The Damned
Life arose 3.5 billion years ago as simple self-replicating molecules. The first multicellular organisms, and thus intelligence, didn’t arrive until 600 million years ago. Ants evolved 150 million years ago, apes 25 million, and humans just 300,000 years ago.
We are not the pinnacle of evolution. In the same way a bacterium cannot comprehend the intentions of an ant, and an ant cannot comprehend the intentions of an ape, nor an ape a human, we will never be able to comprehend the intentions of an intelligence that evolves in a billion years. And that intelligence may never comprehend God’s intentions in their infinitude.
Nice Sahil! I love the poem, it’s distills a lot of meaning into a simple story/metaphor, and I believe it can be understood by those who do not believe in a literal G-d.
Food for thought: What is the relationship between the intellect and the heart? If we (humans) are a stage in the evolutionary cycle, and the next thing that comes is smarter than us, will it necessarily be more ethical?
Joe