We yearn for purpose, not God.
Besides: some people don't yearn for God: like a person with severe mental impairment.
Our appetites are neurological signals that our organism needs something to survive/procreate. God is different because it doesn't fit that pattern.
They are really just defining "curiosity". But day I write the first half a mystery novel. Does your desire for understanding and resolution mean that the second half magically exists? Or writes itself?
Nope.