These are
essentially mutually incompatible activities, one for adults and one for children of all ages. On the one hand we have a purely
thought base, rational exploration of
essentially unanswerable questions and on the other endless contorted
thought based attempts to invoke a single implausible human artefact as the
explanation of everything. Both are seriously if not fatally flawed. They both
rely on argument with only perfunctory attention to experience. For a
more useful though still imperfect method of comprehending the universe we require the method of science with observation and reason inextricably linked and sequenced.
Where this fails there are those who would revert to philosophy or theology in
a bewildering array of combinations to reveal order where sadly none may exist.
Life as experienced by humans in intransigently casuistic. We need to accept
that messy fact but continue with the method of science to see how far we can
get. There is no other useful approach.
