[MD] The difference between a Monet and a finger painting

[X Acto]

[Mark]
Take for example a simplification of the photosynthetic process. Energy is
absorbed by a compound causing an excitation of electrons to a higher level.
This energy is therefore converted from light, to chemical energy.
That energy is then used to do things like oxidize water to oxygen.  OK, so
that is a method by which life seemingly harnesses the suns energy.  The
philosophical question then becomes, why does such an energy absorbing
structure exist?

[Krimel]
Pirsig makes the same kind of point claiming to Baggini that scientists
don't seem to know the difference between questions of why and questions of
how. I have lost what little patience I ever had with this and would suggest
that the difference is between a meaningful and a meaningless question.

Ron:
I think you hit apon an important point, the difference between asking a
meaninful as opposed to a meaningless question. 

[Mark]
Why does matter have the nature where it is capable of absorbing energy and
converting it?  This is a philosophical question because although one can
say "that is just the property of matter", this leaves us humans wanting. 

Ron:
Matter is energy...reducing the question to "why is there energy."
why does existence exist? to simplify the querey.
Is asking "why does existence exist" meaningful?
Rather than "how does existence exist"? Asking "why"
points to a psycological need for reason, one that myth
and theology supply and apply to the unknowable dynamic.
Asking why is asking to define the indefinable..betterness is 
relative, leaving it meaningless in any sort of definable sense.
Krimel makes a good point.