I think that the biggest, most seemingly unsolvable dilemmas of our time could be resolved if we were able to answer this question - "what is the human spirit?". Or, to be more general - "what is the spirit?". The problem is that most scientists disavow the existence of the spirit, and most theologists feel the need to attach the concept of it's existence to religion. But I think that the answer lies somewhere in between. The problem is that there is no denying that the spirit exists. The fact that we are capable of individual thought and action proves this. So why is the scientific community so resistant of this topic? Because they don't have the answers. Why are theologists so resistant? For the same reason. People are simply uncomfortable with not knowing.

But the greatest discoveries of our time have started with the few people that were capable of saying "I don't know". Unadulterated curiosity has spawned the greatest discoveries of our time. And the mother of curiosity is self admitted ignorance. So if scientists were able to admit (or at least address) the fact that they don't know what comprises the human spirit, and what it's origins are, then they would at least be capable of beginning the search to answer this age-old question. And if the religious population had a direct answer to the question of the origin of the human spirit, then they wouldn't find the need to subscribe to a particular religion (which conveniently answers the question for them). And if religion wasn't around, there would be none of the following: suicide bombers, witch hunts, Muslim/Serb massacres, Christian Crusades, or any of the other examples of mass killings in the name of religion.

So as an advanced society, we should challenge the greatest thinkers of our time to answer the question of the human spirit and the origin of our species' capacity for original thought and free will. If they could find a way to define it, human beings may stop killing each other in the name of god, and start putting their unique capacity of original thought towards greater conquests.