*What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any crea...

What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know an answer to this question means to be religious.
You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question?

I answer: The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

- Einstein (as quoted in Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934)