Confused Humans : Born Intelligent, Trained to Stop Thinking

 

Of the roughly 87 lakhs species believed to exist, we have formally described only about 15 lakhs.

And among this limited, incomplete catalogue of life, this blog is dedicated to examining one especially curious species:

Homo sapiens.

The funny part is, science gives us just one name no sub-category at all.

No classification of male or female, no caste, no rich or poor, no LGBTQIA+. Just one clean label.

Thanks to science for not dividing us.

We proudly call ourselves Homo sapiens “the wise species”.

That name always cracks me up. Because if this is wisdom, then stupidity must be some next-level superpower.

We are the only species who can find ways to land on Mars, but still fight over whose God is real, whose religious book is final edition, whose food rules are more holy & whose content is morally correct.

Let’s start with one uncomfortable truth and understand what we know.

There is no morality in nature.

Nature does not care fairness, innocence, or justice. 

A lion does not feel guilty after killing a deer. 

A virus does not stop and think, “Oh no, this child is innocent.” 

Earthquakes don’t check your religion before shaking your house. 

Floods don’t ask if you prayed properly.

Nature is brutally honest. 

Survival, reproduction, end of story.

That’s it. No ethics. No mercy. No cosmic court.

So the idea that this entire universe was specially designed for humans and that a divine being carefully installed “morality” just for us sounds less like truth and more like human imagination at work.

The universe is about 13.8 billion years old. Humans have existed for roughly 300,000 years. If morality was the grand purpose, I have no idea why this delay from God to create humans and its morality.

Morality is not written in the sky. It is written later by very confused humans.

So where did morality come from?

From us. From society. From fear. From convenience. From rules that helped groups survive. From Constitution. Not from the sky with background music.

Morality is a human tool, shaped by biology, culture, fear, hope, and the need to live together without killing each other.

God of Gaps

We humans hate uncertainty. Our brain itches when it does not know the answer. And here enters our favourite solution, “God of the gaps”

Don’t know how lightning works? God did it.

Don’t know why sun rises? God did it.

Don’t know how disease spreads? God is angry.

Don’t know why universe exists? God again.

Every time science said “we don’t know yet,” religion said “relax, I know everything.” Very comforting. Very efficient. Also very dangerous.

The God of gaps keeps shrinking.

Earlier, God lived in thunder. Then science came.

Then God moved to diseases. Science came again.

Now God mostly lives in places where science has not hoist its flag, like before Big Bang, after death, and inside people’s feelings.

Religion did not just say “God exists.”

Religion said, “God exists and I am path to reach your destiny but after death.”

One religion said, “My God is true.”

Another said, “No no, my God is true.”

Both agreed on one thing: “Others are wrong.”

Slowly, belief became identity.

Questioning became sin.

Doubt became enemy.

Logic became “Western influence” or “demonic thought” depending on geography.

Religion trained us very well.

From childhood, we were told stories before we learned to ask questions.

We were rewarded for faith, punished for doubt.

Fear was marketed as faith.

Hope was sold as heaven.

And curiosity was kept on silent mode.

And here is the best part. God always agrees with the believer.

God hates the same people you hate.

God loves the same rules you follow.

God conveniently supports your politics, your caste, your gender bias, your wars.

Very flexible God.

If morality truly came from God, then why did morality change over time?

Why was slavery once holy?

Why were women once property?

Why was caste justified?

Why were heretics (विधर्मि) burned?

These questions are making the humans morally confused. 

Did God update his terms and conditions? Or did humans slowly grow a spine?

Religion alone did not make humans moral.

Humans slowly made religious text moral, after enough damage.

Today we stand as a confused species.

Science in one hand.

Superstition in another.

Phone with internet, but brain still on airplane mode.

We want evidence for everything else in life, but blind faith for afterlife.

We want logic in office, but magic in the place of God’s worship.

We laugh at flat earthers, but believe universe was made in six working days.

Maybe Homo sapiens means “wise man.”

Or maybe it means “wise enough to survive, foolish enough to believe our own stories.”

This is not anti-God.

This is anti-confusion.

If God exists, he surely gave us a brain.

And if we never use it, that might be the real sin.