I think that scottness has a good point in there.
What he is saying isn't in the Bible (big surprise
) but I think he has a point.
Knowledge is power. Giving ourselves too much power that we don't have the understanding and wisdom to use well is dangerous.
We seem to gather knowledge to enable us to have more control over the world but we don't gather all the knowledge necessary to use that control well.
I would say that history has demonstrated that what we have learned is a two edged sword. We alleviate suffering with our abilities to cure illnss. In fact, from the perspecitive of the Biblical writers we ARE gods! We can perform the miracles of the Bible and then some. But we haven't controlled our use of that power and now there are some billions too many of us. We are in real danger of crushing the world under our weight.
Too much knowledge not enough wisdom might be the point in what scottness has to say.