For me it is the other way round: belief in god would eliminate all meaning, wonder and purpose in life. After all with a god, everything would be arbitrary (wh

For me it is the other way round: belief in god would eliminate all meaning, wonder and purpose in life. After all with a god, everything would be arbitrary (whatever god wants). So what would be the point in doing anything, trying to understand anything? God could just change the thing I just understood in the next millisecond, and all my effort would have been wasted. Also, what would there be to wonder about, if the answer is always "god made it so"? And, presumably god would already understand the thing he created, so what would be the point in me trying to understand it - the puzzle would already be solved. It would merely be cruel of god to withhold the information from me. It's a bit like modern Hollywood movies: computer graphics have enabled arbitrary visual effects, so they have become boring to me (the effects, I mean). I almost never wonder "how did they do that". Also Dawkins wrote a lot about the issue you present, and he makes good points about the universe without a god being fascinating.