Think of the answers to life's greatest questions as the variable N. There's no equation to go around it, it's just N. Atheism says that there is know way of knowing what N equals, so they remain unsolved. Religions give their answer to N, but with no mathematical or scientific proof. Religions offer the help you request because you want them to. Atheism says there really isn't anything supernatural that can help.
In the beginning, God created a bunch of male animals, a bunch of female animals, and one male human. 
