Appetite to Know

In the article it is mentioned that, "We are necessarily curious creatures, with insatiable appetites to understand, predict, and control our surroundings and ourselves. The discovery of how things work is intrinsically rewarding, and developing the pratical applications of discoveries in no less so" (1Clark). Clark says this applying to science and the naturalists but it can easily be applied to religious views as well. Just like people have looked to science for a better understanding, they can also look to religion. Almost any religion has answers for the questions that it seems no one else can answer: why there is war, why we die, what happens after we die. People can use religion in the same manner, to answer the otherwise unanswerable and satisfy our appetites for understanding just as science can.