Science and Meaning

Science is a successful method of studying the universe. Through the scientific method, data is obtained through the senses, and human reason is implemented to produce a sound conclusion.

This field ranges from the infinitesimally small to the immensely huge: is there anything smaller than a quark? How many more billion light-years does the universe go on?

This brings up a question: what is science looking for? Is it something smaller than a quark? Or something at a distance beyond the observable universe?

Could this something be meaning? Bear in mind, that science's self-proclamation is that they deal only with the "how" of things, but not the "why".

We all have a good idea about what exists, and about what does not.

And of the things that exist, we have a good idea about what these things do.

However, why do things do what they do?

We are to reflect upon this situation by considering the following thought:

The question is not that life appears on planets that meet the conditions needed to sustain life, but rather, why do the conditions that cause life, cause the life-causing events in the way that they do?

Will quarks tell us? Is there an answer out near the edge of the cosmos?

Perhaps some day, if not already, there will be a day - a day where which what and why are gloriously united...