Why? My daughter Nesia kept asking me, the moment she was able to express the awe for that what is, for the world she found herself in. Not what and where, and how, but "Why".
Human existence resolves around the Why of things. Neither science nor psychology, as such, nor mathematics, or logic can answer the question of Why. Why do we exist, Why is nature rather than not, Why does the world have a beautiful order and is not a chaotic mess. Why is nature miraculously intelligent.
No questions can be finalized until the question of Why, why are things, is answered. It is impossible to determine how life evolved, how quantum mechanics works, how general and special relativity can be, what the fundamental forces are: what gravity is, the electromagnetic forces, the strong and weak atomic forces, or who God is until one can answer why God is here, why the laws of nature, that we observe truthfully, work, over and over again as we observe them with microscopes and telescopes, why some mathematical equations are solve-able and most are not. And Why do all fundamental questions must retreat into infinity without an end in sight? Why each cause begs an effect and the effect can never be more than what caused it, yet both effect and cause require a given to negate their timely events. And even the space they are in cannot be deducted from their relation to each other as we observe it as objects, things, sun and moon and planets and particles spinning and cycling each other.
What holds them unified in their diversity, in form and matter?
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