Peter Kreeft on the Answer to the Question, "If Atheism, Psychologism, and Idealism Aren't the Answer, What Was the Question Again?"

The other day we were talking about answers. Now we want to know what it is that we really wanted to know.

The really ultimate question, much more important than the scientific question, is: Who's there? That's why myth is more important than science. Myth is an answer, though an unsatisfactory one, to the deeper question, Who's there? Science only answer the question, How does it work? Or at the most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's in charge here? who's the author? That's what we really long to know.

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