Science doesn’t tackle “why” questions about the purpose of life. It sticks to “how” questions that focus on causation and probabilities. Snow building up on the side of a mountain may slip and start an avalanche, or it may not. Until it happens, or it doesn’t, it could go either way. It is not predetermined by God or fate or anything else. It is not “meant to be.” It has no meaning. “Maybe” suggests that, contra Einstein, God does play dice with the cosmos. Thus, probabilistic thinking and divine-order thinking are in tension.
