“Our power is evolving faster than our wisdom.”

Ive been thinking a lot lately about how little we may actually understand about the world we live in.
I believe in God as the Creator of the Earth and the universe, but I also believe science is one of the ways we try to understand His creation. I don’t see science and spirituality as automatically being opposites.
I’ve been especially interested in the idea of the firmament mentioned in Genesis. I’m not claiming that I know exactly what the firmament is, but I think it’s interesting to consider that God could have placed certain limitations on humanity without that necessarily meaning those limitations can never be pushed or surpassed.
I don’t believe talking about the firmament means humans are permanently incapable of reaching beyond what we currently understand or experience. We’ve already created technology that would have seemed impossible to people in the past, so who’s to say what we could eventually develop?
And honestly, that’s where I think things could get dangerous for civilization.
Our ability to advance may eventually take us into areas we don’t fully understand. We could develop the ability to cross boundaries that once seemed impossible without necessarily having the wisdom to understand what’s on the other side. That’s what I mean when I say our power is evolving faster than our wisdom.
For example, what if there are worlds in other galaxies with completely different environments, forms of life, or civilizations that are far more advanced than we are? We know other planets exist, and we know the universe is unimaginably large, but our technology still limits how much we can actually explore.
That also makes me wonder about Earth itself. We reconstruct ancient history from fossils, geological evidence, DNA, ice cores, etc., but the record is fragmented. There are things about Earth’s past that we simply don’t know. So I’m interested in the possibility that ancient Earth could have been very different from what we experience today.
And sometimes I wonder if we’re putting too much emphasis on advancing technological civilization before we’ve even fully understood the world we already live on. There is still so much of Earth that we haven’t explored or understood—the deep ocean, the depths of the Earth, ecosystems, consciousness, our own origins, and so much more.
I’m not against technological advancement. I just wonder what could happen if we put more of that intelligence, technology, and curiosity toward understanding creation itself instead of constantly trying to build something bigger, faster, and more powerful.
Maybe we’re not supposed to assume that everything we can eventually discover has already been discovered—or that everything we can create is something we necessarily should create.
I’m not posting this because I think I have all the answers. Honestly, I’m interested in hearing from people who can challenge these ideas without immediately dismissing them. I’m especially interested in perspectives that bring together spirituality, science, consciousness, ancient civilizations, cosmology, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
What do you think humanity genuinely understands about creation—and what might we be completely missing?

Thanks for the post @lovedestiny401. I share some of your ideas, for example that science is an important and necessary tool or method of understanding our world and the universe from a particular perspective. Though it does have a gap which it cannot fill. The study of astronomy for example, we can look up at the Moon, the planets, stars and galaxies, but the earliest impressions I recall on looking up at the night sky was a sense of awe and wonder. That's an area which science doesn't attempt to include - though it may be a driving force behind some people who choose to study and research these things.

The idea of God is one which I feel very wary of trying to pin down, certain words such as 'creator' can capture an aspect but not the entirety. A bit like the anecdote of the blind men and the elephant - each person grasps one small part but each reaches a different conclusion. Personally I'd like to suggest 'lover' as a counterpart to 'creator'. That's a loaded word I realise, there are many meanings and uses of the word love. But it may be a more important one than creator. We can for example create weapons of war or many machines and technologies. Devoid of love are not these things emptiness? How should we understand the universe without considering the role of love in that understanding? At least, such as we are, in our human form, what else can we do? We choose. Daily, moment by moment we choose, our thoughts and actions. And how do we guide or steer our path, what is its guiding light?

In the opening post, there is mention of Genesis which hints at ancient scriptures as a possible answer. I would say we must discover anew. Those words were written by people, their inspiration was their own. We must find our own. But I don't mean to trigger a religious debate, that's not the purpose of this forum and there is room for many different viewpoints here. I just feel a need to be rooted in the present, the now.