Adherence to atheism stuns me. I have empathy for the individual who struggles to find God as there have been plenty of times in my life where I, too, have felt spiritually bereft and alone; however, I have genuine trouble accepting one of the core tenets of the atheist worldview that is born out of its original God-less premise: If we are solely a product of cosmic randomness, then there is no inherent purpose to our existence. Many folks around the world wonder what will happen to them when they die. They (we) also want to know why we are all here. The former question doesn't intrigue me as much as the latter because if I cease to exist after I die then there won't be any of my consciousness around to continue wondering the question. If there is an afterlife and that afterlife is governed by God, then really the more important question is the latter and its corollary: What does God want me to do while I'm alive? What is the purpose of my existence? In an atheis