Why Not How

I do not need to know how the universe came to be, I only need to know why.

An analogy:
I don't really know how a book is made. I know they cut down trees, and recylce old paper, in order to get pulp, but I do not know the process required to do this.
I do not know the details involved in turning pulp into paper.
I do not know how they make the ink, or from what ingredients. I do not know how they print the ink onto the paper.
I do not know how they bind the book together. I do not know how to make the glue used, nor how to apply it so all the pages stick properly, and in the correct order.
I do not know how to make the cover, with its different paper and its different inks.
I do not know the details of where our language came from, which words are from latin, which from greek, which from french and so on.

All these things I do not know, but I do not need to know them. All I need is to read the book and learn the information within, learn why it was made what the information means to me.

If I did learn how the book was made, the entire process from top to bottom, but I still had not read it, then what use is it to me?

Posted by: JEQP