One of the neat things about blogging is that you can track down bits of wisdom and useful aphorisms in a multitude of places. I found this comment in a thread on RichardDawkins.net by an IT consultant who posts under the username Roland_F. I think he hits the nail on the head:
"The homo sapiens are pattern (and purpose) seekers, and based on the delayed and prolonged maturing process humans are able to learn (and ask *why*) all their life, so there will always be the question of purpose.
Unfortunately religion gives not any real answer to *purpose* and the *why* which is so often advocated from religiots as their advantage above science.
So what is the religious or more specific Christian answer to the purpose: God created the universe, God created the earth, God created humans – the purpose ? Only God knows, God moves in mysterious ways , God is unknowable, God must have a plan, but this plan is beyond human ken . . .
Why is there an universe : God created it, why did God do it: well again : Only God knows, God moves in mysterious ways , God is unknowable, God must have a plan, but this plan is beyond human ken . . .
Why is there all the suffering of sentient beings ? Only God knows, God moves in mysterious ways, God is unknowable, God must have a plan, but this plan is beyond human ken . . .
And so on and on all the *why* questions. This is not providing any serious answer to anything. Science at least tries to answer the *why* : there is a big bang e.g. something rather than nothing, “because nothing is instable” , suffering in the world is explained by the selection pressure of evolution & natural selection, altruism and cooperation can both be explained as selection advantage, etc . . . so much more *why* is explained by science than the hollow and totally empty “Goddidit” or “only God knows” stereotype of theist."
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