Christian answering questions too!

[Pat Mustard]

No.  I would ask that if we as humans did not have a consciousness, then what is the point of all that we see around us in the universe.  If we aren’t here to observe it, what’s it here for?

Oooh the strong anthropic fallacy. The reason humanity is here is because given the constraints of the physical universe we are a possible and plausible result. Nothing more, nothing less. The universe wasn't created for us, we evolved because we fit in under the physical laws of the universe. If the universe were different, who's to say a species made up of a single hive mind of all the mass on a planet would not develop under the different constraints thus pertaining and try to figure out its place in the universe? Or even given the current universe, who's to say we're the first intelligent species to spring up over the course of the c4,500,000,000 years of earth's existence? Maybe there was a crab civilisation ready to make the Great Leap Sideways into an industrial revolution just as a giant asteroid hit.

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