Religion and Knowledge

In the limit as knowledge approaches infinity, the need for religion becomes nil, for with total understanding comes a total lack for fictitious explanation. Defining variable "k" as knowledge, we can model this mathematically as such:


So then we can assume the need for religion is a temporary step in our evolution as a species. At first we are too dumb to think of anything, then we develop enough to start to question our surroundings. But at this point our brains are capable of only questioning, not answering. This is the evolutionary stage that requires religion to supply all answers. Eventually, we evolve to the stage where we begin to be able to supply some of our own answers, not from our imaginations, but via our intellects. Eventually we evolve to the point where we can supply all the answers, totally supressing the need for any imaginary answers (religion) altogether.

Today, we live in a stage of human evolution where we have sufficient scientific knowledge to begin to start casting off the shackles of religious and intellectual oppression.

And if we accept that reliance on religion is transient, and if we accept the mathematical equation above, how is it possible to still believe in a religion? Is it not a contradiction? If we know where we have been, and we know where we are, and we know where we will eventually be, how is it possible to assume a position contradicting this (complete) knowledge? Maybe I need to give an example to illustrate my point. If you're in eastern Russia driving due south, and enter into Mongolia, you know if you keep driving, you will eventually enter China. But religious people will tell you you will be in Mongolia forever. Of course this postion is assinine.

I posit that to believe in religion is just as assinine as the never ending Mongolian highway.