Why do some people consider I don't know unacceptable?

i ask that all the time, i suppose it's the god of the gaps. people tend to think that humans have an innate right to know all the answers, and if we don't they make up an explanation and call it truth because the option is not knowing. we don't see 'i don't know' as an answer, even though it's a perfectly valid position.

personally i think that if we know we don't know something, then we know a lot more then if we believed we knew something we didn't.

sometimes knowing we have to asks the question is all we have, it's when we don't even ask that we're truly ignorant.

Many people seem to really need certainty, I suppose that's what most religion is born of. It answers everything, even if highly inadequately. Other people enjoy the fact that there is always more to learn, a better understanding of things to reach, some new discovery around the corner. I've noticed a lot of theists when arguing in favor of religion over science, treat science like it's a religion without all the answers, and therefor an inferior way of thinking. But to me having some of the truth and making progress towards more truth is infinitely better:)

Because God exists whether science admits it or not and if science has all the answers why is the world in such bad shape? Why don't they do something? they obviously want us all to suffer because they are not providing the answers to all our problems. What good is any of the technology doing? We are further advanced and going faster and faster into a nose-dive everyday, Why?

1Co:1:19: For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

1Co:1:20: Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1Co:1:21: For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

Personally I hate the idea of pity, but I wish creationists could realize that everything wasn't just made in a flash a few thousand years ago. At least for me, the idea that things were made over unfathomable spans of time and that they're still being made fills me with incomprehensible wonder and awe. The Universe is absolutely amazing, regardless of whether or not it was "spoken" into existence by a huge guy with a fluffy white beard and a sparkle in his eye.

Religion seeks truth. Science finds it.

Well duh! If you place God in the answer it's less likely to cost anything. If the idiot wants to investigate it further, it's usually followed up by a grant application.

Cosmond, your description of the Almighty is incorrect and convoluted at best. No where have I ever found a description of God's physical appearance. Why touch on that assumption and negate any point you wish to make?

Questions about the origin of the universe and origin of the species are all interesting but not vital. The vital question that appears agonizing time after time concerns the meaning of life, the purpose of life, the point of life. Science can never answer those questions.

Peace and blessings be upon you.

We know that the God do everything but how? this is the role of science which the God ordered us to look for it to see his power and wisdom in the creation of this world.

We must said we don't know in what we already don't know about it or have no informations about it.

Because a fear of the unknown can be such a horror compared to a comfortable idea.

Idk, is often a cop-out. When I genuinely don't know, I will either say that OR something like I have no idea/I really don't know the answer to that.

PS science can never "prove" the existence of "God". Half of Him/Her/It is unseen and immeasurable.

I don't know. Must be the will of God. It is the only possible answer.