John Maynard Smith and Evolution

John Maynard Smith seems to be a very intelligent man who has chosen to take a certain path. I was heard a teacher who was speaking of philosophy and theology that there comes a time in all of our lives if we really study into these things, that we must simply choose which one makes more sense to us and then go with that. We will need to learn to make things fit or find there truth in what we have chosen. There is almost always a way and it seems that John Maynard Smith has chosen evolution without God. He worked his whole life to solve the things that didn´t make sense in the theory of evolution and through that he came up with ideas like the game theory.

There were points that seem to astonish me when he admitted having no educated idea in things like consciousness, which he conceded in being the thing that gives us our meaning and that it also gives way to a metaphysical. He simply said he found it hard to believe, but that there isn´t any evidence against it and he simply couldn´t have an educated opinion because he doesn´t know much. There seems to be a redundancy in some of the opinions of the evolutionist toward how religion impedes science, but yet where there is a field of research in things such as consciousness they simply throw in the towel and say it cannot be tested. I understand that he has a hard time believing anything without hard evidence, but he himself said that who knows what science will lead us to in 50 years or more. Maybe robots will be ruling the planet. Who knows? Than why does he and others put soo much into the scientific mentality when they do not even know if the whole mentality and process will change in the future leaving everything studied until now without reason. As was mentioned in the Beyond Belief conference, we as humans are very bad at thinking rationally. We can in one field, but we cannot in everything.

Why do we think we can know everything? Why do we think we will ever? I do not think we should stop advances and learning and searching, but we make ourselves a god if we think we are the supreme being that will arrive at knowing everything...and becoming our own Supermen.