Curiosity, Creation, and Regress

The creator made a world simple enough to serve its purpose. Into it he placed us, free to live as we chose. He also planted a tree whose fruit would awaken the need to understand. We ate, and innocence ended. What had been enough no longer was. We began to ask why, then what lay beneath the answer, then what lay beneath that. The creator answered by enlarging the world. Each question made new…