ABSTRACT
Humanity has an insatiable thirst for knowledge. Enriching our knowledge is rewarding, but also frustrating, unsettling, disquieting and even dangerous. The more a person knows, the more aware he or she becomes of his or her ignorance. Biblical wisdom warned against an excessive thirst for knowledge. Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden because they had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge. The Tower of Babel story in the Book of Genesis tells of people who had aspired to reach the knowledge reserved for the Lord. Then the Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” Ecclesiastes warned, “And furthermore, my son, be admonished: Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.”
