Bart,

Thank you for your well stated remarks. I wholeheartedly agree that science gives the mechanics but not the reasons. As a young man, my friends were content to disassemble the parts on their jalopies and then reassemble the parts with modifications, but that was quickly boring. I didn’t want to know how the pieces fit together; I wanted to know why they worked. And I sense in your remarks a kindred spirit. It strikes me, that you too are not satisfied with being a mechanic, you want to be an engineer. But you can’t know why the universe works by examining the parts. Despite the current beliefs to the contrary, there is truth in the universe. There are laws that govern its mechanics. But the salient question is: why.