Unanswerable questions

To celebrate their tenth anniversary, the search engine Ask Jeeves, have revealed the top ten ‘unanswerable’ questions in the past decade. The list is drawn from the 1.1 billion queries posted on their site since its launch.

It’s very interesting to note that the most asked ‘unanswerable question’ over the last decade is ‘What is the meaning of life?’ And, at number two, ‘Is there a God?’

Naturally some of the questions are a tad more trivial, such as ‘Do blondes have more fun?’ But throughout the top ten are deep and important questions. Number seven, for example, is ‘What is love?’ number 8 is ‘What is the secret to happiness?’ and number 10 is ‘How long will I live?’

So it seems that people are wrestling with the big questions of life, and hence there is an opportunity for us to share something of the hope and wisdom we have gained from our Christian journey.