Imperfection and Finitude

If a individual human is conceived as a defective version of an original, the correction of which is possible only via a restoration of the original condition by its creator, then interaction in the fallen condition is essentially futile.  Hence, for example, the pursuit of Truth through the senses, and that of the Good through cooperation with other defective entities, are in vain.  In contrast, absent the premise of the equivalence of 'finite' and 'defective', both Science and Politics, for example, can be means to the substantive enhancement of human life.  Thus, antagonism towards those endeavors, an ongoing factor in contemporary affairs, can be the expression of that arbitrary premise.