[Lychee]

Because it's unnecessary, messy, and anticlimactic. Nothing in the universe needs a divine creator; if you give it one, you're tearing down the whole simplicity and beauty of the physical universe by giving it an extra layer of meaningless explanation.

So if the universe doesn't follow the storybook, simple plotlines, it must be incorrect?

God is anything but simple.

Telling an ant to do something probably won't yield the best results. Do you think it would act on your instruction? So how can it be that perhaps we also are that ant in some way and we cannot understand things completely, either?

Past a certain level, there are no why's or explanations. Things just are the way they are. For some, that basic reality is God. For others, it's the physical laws of the universe. Science can explain why, at least as far as the question "why" makes sense.

Science cannot explain why. That's where religion and philosophy comes in.

Evolution answers "why" in the sense of how it happens. One answer is natural selection. Why does natural selection exist? Why do the best survive? What is the point of survival? Why is death experienced? Why is the sky blue? Why do black holes exist? Science takes away the spiritual meaning for it and relies solely on the logical, left brain. It creates an imbalance.

Why are things the way they are?

You don't think that gravitation, relativity, quantum mechanics, natural selection are all explanations of "why" things happen as they do?

No. How does gravitation explain the necessity for it? What is the necessity of quantum mechanics? What is the necessity of our existence?

As for the moral compass, why should you need to believe in a higher power in order to have morals? Morality comes from an individual--everyone creates their own values independently, which are unique to themselves. There are many ways to do this other than appealing to an imagined higher intelligence.

If we're all going to die anyway, what's the point in morals? What's the point in treating people with kindness? We're all going to turn to dust someday so it really doesn't matter what we do in this world, does it? The complete cessation of our existence at the the time of death negates everything done in our lives. There would be no point to doing anything. Many religion acts as a motivation for doing good with promise of an afterlife.

Sorry Mathew, I don't think you have answered Aiden. The theory of gravity fully explains both how and why the Earth rotates around the Sun. It enables the past and future behaviour of the two bodies to be predicted to a very high degree of accuracy. It is useful. You can apply the insight from this to explore other aspects of the Universe.

When the theory of gravity was first formulated we made a great leap forward in our understanding of the world. The theory that it was all made by a being called God explains nothing.

Again, it all explains how. Why does it enable us to predict the past and future behavior? Why is it even predictable? Why is the sun and earth being moved so perfectly that we can predict it?