1. Science can answer how questions but only religion can answer why questions

Comment #81395 by scroipt on October 24, 2007 at 4:53 pm

Everything has and will come to be by a method. The how question is simply the search for that method. One could assume that everything happens for a reason, the search for which is the why, though this simply an assumption.
This does not mean that nothing has a reason, it simply means that the reason things happen is a much higher-level concept than method with which things happen. It is a concept that makes sense in the context of the intricate workings of the individual human brain, not in the context of the fundamental workings of nature.
Questions of reason cannot be answered by science (yet), as there is no scientific context within which the concept of meaning makes sense.