This distinction between “how” and “why,” while resonant with emergent philosophies, is not entirely clean. The following are just a few (pure) “why” questions for which faith-based inquiry is powerless to answer, beyond the catch-all response of “Because God made it that way”: •Why is the sky blue? •Why does the moon always show the same face to Earth? •Why does Venus go through phases like the Moon? •Why does the Sun have spots? •Why do hurricanes in the northern hemisphere rotate counterclockwise? •Why is August hotter than June, when the Sun’s rays on Earth are more direct in June?
