People will always seek the "meaning" of life. And if there is one, science cannot answer that question, because science doesn't deal with purpose or meaning, it only deals with empirical fact.
The universe had to have a beginning, because time can not extend infintely in the past; if it did, we would never be able to reach the present, because we would have to go through infinity just to reach now.. which is impossible; it's a paradox. You have to have something beyond time and cause.
What can be beyond time and cause? What can start time? Or, what was the first cause? What can bring something, out of nothing? Why is there anything at all, rather than nothing?
Those are questions science will ever be able to answer, because we cannot measure something that is beyond cause and time, or empirically detect meaning, and that is why religion has its place.
