As a general rule, humans like order. With only a small margin of dissent from lovers of spontaneity, people live in fear of the uncontrolled, unrestricted, chaotic, and unknown. With uncertainty comes risk, and with risk comes disaster, according to the paranoid mind. When you know something inside and out, even if this knowledge is illusory, you learn how to cope with it. You learn to control it.

From this stems three paths, each of their own merits and demerits. The three choices everyone must face when dealing with uncertainty are apathy, exploration, and imagination. They are quite simple, so the idea is often overlooked entirely, and we choose an option without really thinking about it critically. At any rate, let me explain.

Apathy is the approach that if I don't understand, can't control, or don't know about it, I don't care. It's a very lazy, escapist method of viewing the world. It's a staple of most epicurean and even some nihilistic worldviews. It's the whole "not my problem, someone else will figure it out" position.

Imagination is the approach that still garners some concern, but not in the direction that exploration takes. Imagination gets you an answer, but without the tedium of proving anything or investigating anything. It's for those that just want the comfort of an answer, without all the work. This is the "I don't know, God must have willed it to be" position.

And finally, we have exploration. Exploration is the approach of trying to find concrete evidence for things and reasons for phenomena. This includes things like philosophy, science, mathematics, surveillance, any endeavor to understand. The "I don't know, so I better gather some information and try to make sense of it" position.

So for the former two positions, most the big questions are either answered or left unsaid. The search for truth is thrown to the wayside in favor of comfort, and that's perfectly fine! Just stay out of the explorers' way. We're still looking for answers because yours aren't good enough for us. We won't accept the imaginary answers. So on behalf of all the explorers still grappling with the uncertainty of the natural world, stop holding us back with your mythology. Explorers are curing diseases, winning civil liberties, raising the standard of living, developing new technologies, discovering the truth, and making progress. So if you want to keep reaping the benefits of our progress, stop stalling it with creationism in the science room, funding cuts for research programs, wars on the developing world, and protests outside vaccination clinics. You're in the fucking way and it's time you move.