Augustine speaks of man fooling around with that which should stay hidden. You know like Dolly the sheep that was cloned by Man, not created by God. All that curiosity done by those doctors in the Nazi Death Camps. The curiosity that developed the Atomic Bomb and which killed how many and maimed how many in Japan? There are somethings that should best be left alone.

And HOW do you know Augustine was talking about THAT?  About Cloning, Death Camps and Atom Bombs?  Obviously you DON'T know that ... you are just GUESSING!

All Scientific discoveries are built upon previous Scientific discoveries ... to Augustine I'm sure that many things available to us today would have been "beyond our understanding" and "availing us nothing." 

The ability to split the Atom and create the Atom Bomb has lead to numerous OTHER Scientific inventions especially in the field of Medicine and Nuclear Energy.

Light does not come through the various commentaries of men after mens personal biases,

Bravo, well said!