Are We Asking the Right Questions About Life Anymore?
Remember being a kid and asking “Why?” about everything? Why is the sky blue? Why do people die? Why is there something instead of nothing? Somewhere along the way, many of us stopped asking those questions. But what if the biggest mistake of modern life is assuming we’ve already found all the answers worth finding?
The Questions That Refuse to Stay Buried.
Picture this: You’re driving home late one night, maybe after a long day at work or a family gathering. The radio’s off, your phone’s quiet, and suddenly you find yourself really seeing the night sky for the first time in months. Stars scattered across the darkness like someone spilled diamonds on black velvet.
And then it hits you—that feeling. It’s hard to describe, but you know it instantly. A kind of cosmic vertigo, a sense of wonder mixed with something that feels almost like homesickness for a place you’ve never been.
In that moment, questions bubble up from somewhere deep inside:
- What is all of this about? • How did I end up as this conscious being on this spinning rock? • Is there someone behind it all? • Does any of it matter?
These aren’t new questions. Your grandparents asked them. Their grandparents asked them. Humans have been asking them since we first looked up at the night sky and realized we were small.
But here’s what’s changed: we’ve stopped expecting real answers.
When the Map Changed.
Think about how different our cultural landscape looks compared to just fifty years ago. Our grandparents navigated life with what felt like a clear, reliable map. The landmarks were obvious: tradition, family, community, faith. The path from questions to answers seemed well-marked.
Today? We’re all navigating with GPS that keeps rerouting based on… well, on what exactly? Our feelings? The latest scientific discovery? Whatever’s trending on social media?
Don’t get me wrong—some of this change has been positive. We’ve gained incredible knowledge about the physical world. We’ve made progress on social justice. We’ve expanded opportunities for individual choice and self-expression.
But somewhere in this transition, we made a subtle but profound trade-off: we exchanged the expectation of finding ultimate truth for the comfort of creating personal truth.
The old approach said: “Reality exists, and our job is to align ourselves with it.” The new approach says: “Reality is what you make it—follow your heart and define your own meaning.”
The Modern Toolkit Problem.
Here’s where things get interesting. In every other area of life, we’re passionate about objective truth.
We trust gravity to work the same way whether we believe in it or not. We expect 2+2 to equal 4 regardless of our feelings about maths. We build airplanes and perform surgery and design computer chips based on the assumption that reality follows discoverable, reliable patterns.
Our entire civilization is built on objective truths discovered through reason, observation, and evidence.
So why, when we encounter life’s biggest questions, do we suddenly abandon this approach? Why do we trade the compass of reason for what someone aptly called “the weathervane of personal feeling”?
It’s as if we’ve decided that physics and chemistry deal with “real” truth, but questions about meaning, purpose, and God belong to some separate category where truth is just a matter of preference.
But what if this division doesn’t actually make sense?
The Search for Real Answers.
I want to propose something that might sound radical in our current cultural moment: What if the deepest questions about existence have real, discoverable answers just like questions about gravity or mathematics?
What if meaning isn’t something we create, but something we discover when we align our lives with what’s actually, verifiably true?
This blog series is built on that possibility. We’re going to tackle some of humanity’s biggest questions using the same tools we trust everywhere else:
- Reason and logic • Observable evidence • Common sense • Honest investigation of what we actually experience.
I’m not going to ask you to take any leaps of blind faith or accept ancient authorities just because they’re old. If you’re standing on sceptical ground, those approaches probably wouldn’t mean much to you anyway.
Instead, I want to invite you to be curious again. To ask whether the answers our secular culture offers actually fit the shape of reality as we experience it.
What We’ll Explore Together.
Over the coming posts, we’ll investigate some profound questions:
Can we know if God exists? We’ll look at whether belief in God is just wishful thinking or whether the evidence points in a more surprising direction.
Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? If we’re just accidental arrangements of atoms, why do we all seem to share invisible moral standards?
Why does the universe look fine-tuned for life? The more we learn about physics and cosmology, the more the cosmos appears calibrated with extraordinary precision to allow consciousness to exist.
What about suffering and evil? We’ll honestly examine whether the existence of a good God is compatible with the real pain and injustice we observe.
Each post will follow evidence wherever it leads, using tools you already trust logic, observation, and common sense.
An Honest Starting Point.
Let me be upfront about something: I believe these investigations point toward the reality of God. But I’m not asking you to start there. I’m asking you to start with curiosity about whether the questions themselves deserve serious investigation.
Maybe you once had faith but found it didn’t hold up under scrutiny. Maybe you’ve never seriously considered religious claims and assumed they were for people who don’t think critically. Maybe you’ve tried secular approaches to meaning and found them unsatisfying, but you’re not sure what else to explore.
Wherever you’re starting, you’re welcome here.
The only thing I’m asking is that you consider the possibility that reality is real and we can know it—that truth isn’t just a personal preference but something we can actually discover.
Why This Matters Now.
We live in an age of unprecedented access to information, yet many people report feeling more confused and directionless than ever. Depression and anxiety rates are climbing, especially among young people. Despite material prosperity beyond our ancestors’ dreams, surveys consistently show that people are struggling to find meaning and purpose.
What if this isn’t coincidental? What if abandoning the search for objective truth about life’s biggest questions has left us spiritually malnourished?
What if the questions that bubble up when you’re alone with your thoughts—the ones our culture tells you to ignore or answer with personal preference—are actually the most important questions you could ask?
Your Invitation to Wonder.
I can’t promise this journey will be comfortable. Questioning our foundational assumptions rarely is. But I can promise it will be honest, and it might just lead somewhere surprising.
So, here’s my invitation: What if you gave yourself permission to be curious again about the biggest questions? What if you approached them with the same intellectual rigor you’d bring to any other important investigation?
What if the universe is trying to tell us something, and we’ve just gotten out of the habit of listening?
Questions for Reflection:
- When was the last time you felt that sense of cosmic wonder described at the beginning of this post? What triggered it?
- Do you think there’s a meaningful difference between scientific truth and philosophical/spiritual truth? Why or why not?
- What would change about your approach to life’s big questions if you believed they had real, discoverable answers?
- Are you more afraid of finding out God exists, or finding out He doesn’t? What does that tell you?
Next in the series: “An Odd Thing Happened When We Got Rid of God” – We’ll examine what actually happened when Western culture decided to move beyond traditional belief. Did removing God from the equation deliver the promised freedom and fulfilment? Or did something unexpected take its place? The results might challenge everything you’ve been told about progress and enlightenment.
