Comment by wccrawford

"O'Reilly is correct that these questions can only be addressed by mythmaking, religion or philosophy, not by science."

... My jaw is on the floor. It drives me nuts when people go from 'We can't explain that yet' to 'The only explanation is God.'

The tides are incredibly complex when you insist on 'why' all the way back to the beginning of the universe. Everything is!