I guess I fail to see how believing in a bearded man in the sky that created Tay-Sachs disease, filarial worms and cancer in children just to test us for something he should already know is any more hopeful than recognizing life has no real purpose.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell