Friedrich Nietzsche once observed that, "As the circle of science grows larger, it touches paradox at more places."  Though Nietzsche wrote these words in the late nineteenth century, well before the rise of quantum mechanics and relativity and their gradual unbending of physical and chronological certainty in our perception of reality, he was remarkably prescient.  Modern science has indeed demonstrated to us that we must learn to live with paradox in formulating our conclusions about reality, that although we remain perceptual beings, we can not necessarily be certain of how we are seeing what we see, and that we must learn to live with unfinished truths about the way the cosmos works and has (to quote Aratus) "its being".  To live is to live with paradox.
     This brings us to another equally important point about science and us.  Although science is very good at bringing us explanations, even if they often end in unsettling paradox, for how our world and the universe it inhabits process and move about, it is, oddly enough, unable to tell us what these explanations, and the paradoxes on which they often depend, mean.  Put another way, science cannot tell us why.  Why is the world the way it is?  Why is it here?  Why are we here?  And why is paradox the only way that we can understand reality?  Science cannot tell us.
     But God, the God who created reality and the science that explains it, can.  God, the living and active God who, many centuries ago, actually visited and lived in this reality, this reality he himself made, can tell us why we and the world are here.  And though God often seems rife with paradox as well (more on this later), we can nonetheless be assured that God knows, beyond any doubt, what everything uultimately means.  And if, day in and day out, we continue to look, in all things, to God in faith, one day, in an extraordinarily marvelous way, we will know, too.  We will understand.
     And we will never need to ask why again.