i have always been curious as to how things work.
after seeing so many scrutinizing tear-downs of the bible by logical people and seeing the ease by which they dismiss such things, i started my own journey into science to find the answer. what i found was startling.
there are no answers. only measurements. anything beyond this must be a assessment of the data in line with the majorities of the field which it is presented. take particle physics for instance. we have math that can duplicate the real world to a small extent. to try to unravel what is going on at this scale is foolish as you must simply learn the math without a true explanation. when you go down further on the scale there is nothing but space itself and the disturbance of it. quantum mechanics teaches us that we cannot know the position of something at this scale without changing it. in the end we must treat such things a probabilities.
we cannot have the answer. the answer is always a subjective interpretation of our measurements. furthermore, our understanding of this scale of the world does not include the most obvious of forces that act upon the universe (gravity). not only can we not know what is going on but our interpretation of it from the professionals in the field has a major flaw. it cannot describe what we see.
how can we say as scientist that there is no greater being than us while at the same time pour billions into trying to find alien communications knowing the chances that we will actually receive such transmissions is slim to none due to the mathematical probabilities involved.
yes, our scientist claim there is no proof of god's existence yet they have no real answers because this is not the way science works. they must reason with the believers by using a constantly updated view to disprove stories that are thousands of years old. they say that religions are responsible for atrocities and not the men who carry these atrocities out. they say that religion is not necessary to have compassion yet end up displaying no remorse for trying to disband the freedom to believe what you want.
i would argue that science fiction is not accurate and does not conform to what we see yet we should not take it away of dismiss it. was it Hitler or his scientists that thought they could create a superior race? whether it was science of the day or science fiction gone awry does not matter.
should all the weak people follow short sighted science to the gallows? i think not... modern day scientists tell us that the weak are just as important as the specialized winners of the day when it comes to long term survival in an ever changing world. we need them...
in the end, scientists tell us that we owe our existence in this world to chance. our universe is here by chances on the order of which there are fewer particles in the universe many times over.

i say grab as many hand fulls of sand as you want and slowly pour it out onto the ground. will it build a sand castle? i think not. not with all the grains of sand in the universe.
why are we here?
that is a question that good science cannot answer.
at least we have the question. hmm...
what was the question?