Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

We are on a search for answers to what Richard Dawkins declares are man’s most important questions. To anyone familiar with Dawkins or his cohorts, it comes as no surprise that the answers to such questions are all to be found in Darwinism and in Darwinism alone. For example, Dawkins declares that “Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.” This is a philosophical question, not a scientific one. The consensus among scientists of all kinds is that science cannot answer the question why about anything. For example, why do we exist? Why do we find that question intriguing? Is this a quest that has been forced upon us by our genes? Whatever its origin, this quest has us searching the cosmos as far as we can reach to find a satisfactory answer. Stephen Hawking, Cambridge University mathematics professor and author of A Brief History of Time, sums it up in a single sentence: “Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”