Originally Posted by epitome

I cannot imagine where the profit would be in discovering how we got here, only how to alter what already is or to create what will be. As soon as someone can figure out how to profit from answering how we got here, we will begin to figure it out.

Science, like everything else in our society, is profit driven. The research that would be required to answer this question will not come with a price tag of zero.

It's actually quite sad.