Ignorance as God? I Don't Get It

Here is an excerpt of a Dawkins interview from BeliefNet.


You've said, "don’t name our present ignorance 'God"'--which you said is what intelligent design proponents are doing. They’re taking an area where we’re ignorant and naming that God. Do you think science will eventually explain everything we wonder about now?

I don’t know the answer. I’m equally excited by both in a way. I rather like the idea of understanding everything and I also quite like the idea of science being a never-ending, open-ended quest.


I quite like that: "Don't name our present ignorance 'God'. In this context, he's referring to the "Christian" (though hardly Christ-like) Intelligent Design proponents. But I really like it because sometimes people like to say that God represents the Unknowable. Which, to me, is just a non-starter, go-nowhere outlook, but, I can only supppose for a lot of people (my friend Teacup, perhaps some Jews...) very interesting and/or meaningful. But who's to say what is "unknowable"? Furthermore, for me, the "unknown" is, to speak baldly, our own ignorance. And ignorance is not something I'm really inclined to think is worth honoring. At all. Ever. Humility is desirable, yes, but ignorance? I wish us to flee our own ignorance, not praise it.

PS. I don't know why the hell Dawkins would think it possible that we could ever possibly understand everything.