"The more that the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.  There is no point to be discovered in nature itself; there is no cosmic plan for us.  We are not actors in a drama that has been written with us playing the starring role.  There are laws--we are discovering those laws--but they are impersonal, they are cold.

"It is not an entirely happy view of human life.  I think it is a tragic view, but that is not new to physicists.  A tragic view of live has been expressed by so many poets--that we are here without purpose, trying to identify something that we care about." 

So said Nobel laureate physicist Steven Weinberg, who died a few weeks ago.  Although those of us who believe in the existence of a God might recoil from such conclusions, we must admit that, in sum, Weinberg is absolutely right.  While life is indeed grand beyond measure, it is, if there is no ultimate meaning, be it God or something else, in truth, pointless.  We live wondrously, we live gloriously, then we die.  Though our legacy may remain, we are forever gone, a mere blip on a massive, massive cosmic screen.  It's a magnificent tragedy.

Such marvel cannot possibly fit into an empty and godless universe.