I'm never quite sure how it ties in, but I always feel that the sensation and quality of 'love' is somehow relevant to this discussion. Materially speaking, love does not exist other than in its basic form of ensuring reproduction and protecting those who may reproduce your dna and species.

And yet, we know that love is so much more. There is the altruistic love we feel for those less fortunate and in need or the joy we take in the sudden good fortune for someone whose situation had seemed impossible, and the love we feel for those who meet our needs and the (irrational) love we feel even when we try to argue ourselves out of it, as to an inappropriate object like a married target or obvious incompatibility or across wildly different ages/cultures/interests/character/beliefs. Love is an intangible but has tangible outcomes and results.

Now. If we substitute the word 'God' for 'love', where does it lead us?