It is a well known fact that the sciences are really nothing more than an extension of the natural human desire to observe new things, and to interpret those observations in a way that is colored by our own past experiences. Of course, while most scientists will do what they can to justify their continued job security by assigning more factors to the mixture, this is what is it always going to boil down to in the end. But what about the nature of learning itself? What have we really discovered, over the course of hundreds of thousands of years of being a sentient species and holding ourselves as being supreme over everything else?
Perhaps learning is simply the collection of neurons forming stronger and stronger coalitions. United by the experiences of a life spent observing and noting patterns in the world, a person can begin to notice more and more, once the obvious becomes mundane and the simple becomes rote. After all, what is a new thing, besides one that you have never observed before this moment? But of course, learning might have more than just a chemical basis to it, even if it is a tad bit strange to liken everything to a matter of the spirit or to something mystical or magical.
But perhaps learning itself is more than just a connection between the different cells of the brain and the autonomic nervous system. The nerves which are inside of our bodies are charged with electricity. But what is it that causes this electricity to be there in the first place? Where is our original charge, and from where does it originate? If we must resort to replacing religion and its certainty with the total uncertainty of hard facts, we should at least open our minds to the possibility that our ability to learn may come from a higher source of energy.