Westminster Project 4.1

 It pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for the manifestation of the glory of his eternal power, wisdom, and goodness, to create, or make of nothing, the world and all things in it, whether visible or invisible, in the beginning in the space of six days; all of this was very good. 
(WCF 4.1)

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
(Matt 7:7-8, KJV)

Many years ago, before I became a Christian, a friend challenged me to think about what sets humanity apart from every other living creature in the universe. 

It wasn’t something I had really considered before because, being around musicians, it rarely came up in conversation. There are many things that could have been pointed to, but what made me think—within my agnostic worldview—was that humans are the only creatures in the known universe who ask the question why.
I love visiting the zoo with my children, but out of all the animals, and out of all the creatures with brains larger than ours, not one sits there looking at the night sky and asks why. Not one creature on earth, apart from humans, has philosophy, science, or religion to try to answer the question of why. And why on earth do we ask why in the first place? Why, why, why?

For me, all of this was answered when I first became a Christian. God has spoken and gives the answers in Scripture. God is the greatest artist of all, who created everything out of nothing by the word of His mouth (Gen 1; Col 1:16), and He did it all in six days (Gen 2:1-3; Ex 20:11; 31:17). This means we are living in His masterpiece, which surrounds us with its colors, smells, sounds, rhythms, and beauty (Ps 8, 19). As the confession puts it, God made all that exists as a “manifestation of the glory of His eternal power, wisdom, and goodness,” so that we humans might employ the tools He gave us to look and ask—who, what, when, how, and most importantly, why (Rom 1:18-32)—all so that we might glorify Him.

Now, this is not to say that we will arrive at the right conclusions just by observing His creation (see WCF 1.1). But it does mean that through the uniquely human quality of questioning (Deut 4:29; Jer 33:3; Matt 7:7)—which no other creature on earth shares—we might come to understand that we are indeed part of a created order and unique to the Creator in this world.