Earth is but a drop in the vast ocean of millions, even billions, of stars. The elements of this drop include hundreds, even thousands, of objects. We, with our limited cognitive abilities and boundless emotional expanse, are but one of them. Yet, we often succumb to conclusions that are either flawed or downright ridiculous. Just picturing the sky-earth differences between us and what lies beyond should be enough to shatter in us the illusion of all-knowingness.

This is the first argument: it’s simply not humanly possible to know everything. Claiming omniscience is, therefore, nonsense.

Grab abstract knowledge of things, and you reinforce the awareness of your own ignorance. Stretching beyond boundaries in the quest to know more leads down an intellectual cul-de-sac. ‘Try to understand what someone is actually doing, and you lose yourself in angles, degrees, assumptions,........

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