A final answer to anything important generally does sound like a cop-out

An interesting quote:
"Creation and evolution, between them, exhaust the possibile explanations for the origin of living things. Organisms either appeared on the earth fully developed or they did not. If they did not, they must have developed from pre-existing species by some process of modification. If they did appear in a fully developed state, they must have been created by some omnipotent intelligence." - D.J. Futuyma