"The most fundamental phenomenon of the universe is relationship," famous and influential scientist Jonas Salk once said, for, he continued, the human being is a being who seeks to relate.
     We cannot really argue with Dr. Salk's observation.  We all appreciate relationships, and, unless we are hermits, we all enjoy connecting with our fellow human beings.  Have you ever wondered, however, why this is?  Evolution would say that it is because relationship proved to be humanly advantageous.  Religion would say that it is due to God having made people this way.  Who's right?
     It's a terribly big question, but we can perhaps break it up this way.  If we say that we relate because we want to, we must still explain why we want to; that is, what is in us that causes us to desire relationship?  Is it simply random chance that we developed various chemical and neuronal capacities to connect and relate?  How would initial chaos develop these longings?  On the other hand, if we say that we relate because we were made to do so, we must of course explain why God wished for us to be this way.  We'd need to explain the mind of God, no easy task.
     But which is easier?  To explain the presence of a mind or the fact of a nothingness from which mind has come?  It's difficult to see how relationship originated in nothingness, yet it is difficult to see how God, alone in himself, could create such a thing.  How would he know to do so?
     Consider this:  we would only know and believe he could if God knew first.