Quote Originally Posted by Polymirize
Where does this amazing sense of self-importance come from? To think that the entire universe in all it's complexity should limit itself so as to not go outside of your understanding?

Why? Give me one good reason to limit the scope of all that is, to that which I can understand...
Give me one good reason to expand the scope of all that is to things we have no evidence of. If we have no proof that something exists, why should we concern ourselves with it? Why speculate on the details of unicorns, leprechauns, Santa Claus, souls or gods if there is nothing that suggests they are even real? Certainly there are things in this universe we don't fully understand, like quantum mechanics, black holes and human cognition, but that does not mean we should postulate the existence of things which no one has been able to muster up the slightest bit of objective evidence for. If there is something out there we can't even detect, then clearly it has no effect at all on our lives and any speculation about it is useless.

"If God is, man is a slave; now man can and must be free; thus God does not exist." —Mikhail Bakunin