>>I'm confused. Perhaps you can clarify the difference between your original statement and my paraphrased version of it.
You: For without God, life truly has no meaning whatsoever.
Me: life without your version of "God" is meaningless<<
Be happy to. My version of God is not the perfect "version."
"1 Corinthians 13:12
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known."
Fact of the matter is that if there is no creator and all existence is merely a trick of the cosmos, then nothing has any meaning whatsoever - there is no meaning in the beginning of creation nor in it's existence. The survival or extermination of all of mankind has no consequence whatsoever and morality is merely a man made myth.
Actually "Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis covers this nicely for one who would like more wisdom on the subject than I can give on a thread on Freerepublic.
I don't see how the existence of a creator gives meaning to what would otherwise be meaningless. In other words, if what the creator created is meaningless when it stands alone, then what the creator has created is meaningless. If I create a gadget which serves no purpose and falls apart if you try to put it to any purpose, it is no more meaningful than if the useless gadget had evolved from "a trick of the cosmos".