Can science answer the 'meaning of life', apart from Religion

Very very well put. To me meaning and purpose play a key role together, but I'll focus on meaning for a second here. You stated previously that the Big Bang is one of the very compelling answers. It's an answer to the meaning of life, but I don't think that it is. I say that knowing it sounds completely biased and stubborn but really think about it with me. How can I find meaning in life, if life itself happened by chance. I understand that this can easily slide into a philosophical conversation but again, like I said in the comment I posted, I think it's absolutely crucial to understand our beginning and since it would appear it's either Big Bang or religion this is how the two, meaning/purpose and science/philosophy, work close together. You said: "We were also not created by chance as the Big Bang was an event that put our planet in the habitable zone which is millions of miles long. There are many planets in these zones making us not that special when it comes to our placement and the chance of it happening." The Big Bang was an event that happened from nothing. It created something from nothing. If nothing created something, since nothing has no value, or anything to it, I would have to disagree and say that since something came from nothing, that has the hint of chance in it. There are many planets in these zones but the absolutely incredibly mind blowing fact is that this one planet that we inhabit is the only one PERFECTLY suitable for life. Perfectly. If we were a hundred feet closer to the sun we would melt, and further away we would freeze. Same with gravity; a little less we would float away, a little more we would be flattened. But the most amazing fact is that we have found absolutely no life aside from this planet. Nothing at all and we have seen something amazing things in this universe thus far. To say that we are not that special is completely false. Religion or Big Bang we are EXTREMELY unique. But now of course we get back to the fundamental. If we were made by chance, sadly that's the theory the Big Bang offers, if it doesn't you are essentially admitting to an intelligent design, what is the point of me here. You live for something or someone but I have to ask, why? Is there any point to it? If there is nothing to come, I feel like we would be wasting our time? I want this again, to be more of a discussion so I would like your reaction on that. To me, believing in God answers the question of 'the meaning of life' because as I said up top, if God created this universe, everything and everyone on it, and it wasn't made by chance but designed, there is a purpose behind it. What's the purpose? To be in relationship with the creator. This is where you are I may see things differently, but if I was created and if you were created and you had the opportunity to pursue the creator of you, who knows every piece of you, wouldn't you want to? He gives me a meaning, and a purpose that will always fulfill. The people I'm living with and for will let me down as well as the something I'm living for. It's inevitable. One way or another it will, for you and me both, so I can't find a satisfying purpose in that. That's the answer to your question but let's keep on point here. Haha