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The human being, writes Loren Eiseley, is the cosmic orphan. He is the only creature in the universe who asks, Why? Other an*mals have instincts to guide them, but humans have learned to ask questions. Who am I? Asks the human being. Why am I here? Where am I going? From the Enlightenment, when the bonds of religion were unraveled, man tried to answer these questions without reference to God. But the answers that came were not encouraging, but dark and terrible. You are the accidental byproduct of nature, a result of matter plus time plus change. There is no reason for its existence. Death is all that you have ahead. Modern man thought that after got rid of God, had been free from all that repressed and stifled. Instead, he discovered that by killing God, he had killed himself. That is because, if there is no God, human life is absurd. If God's hand exists, both the human being and the universe are inevitably doomed to death. The human being, like all biological organisms, must die. Without hope of immortality, his life just walks to the grave. Your life is nothing but a spark in the infinite darkness, a spark that appears, shines and dies forever. Compared to the infinite extension of time, the life span of the human being is only an infinitesimal moment; even so, that's all life he'll never know. So one has to be faced with what theologian Paul Tillich called the threat of not being. Because even though I know now that I exist, that I am alive, I also know that someday'll exist no more, I will not be more, I'll die. This thought is frightening and threatening: to think that the person I call I will cease to exist, that I will not be! I remember perfectly, the first time my father told me that one day I would die. Somehow,