(September 12, 2011 at 6:25 pm)IATIA Wrote: It would seem that most, not all, posters are still assuming some type of "purpose" to life. A 'purpose' requires intent and 'intent' requires an 'intender'. We can create a purpose for 'our life' or we can allow others to do so, but life, in and of itself, has no purpose.
Let us start with the very first lifeform. Somewhere in our universe a lightning bolt hits some gooey pond of protein and voila, the first lifeform begins. Unless there is purpose at this point, how can there be purpose now? We are just an evolution of the first life without purpose at all.
If we are to assume a purpose then we must ask what the intent was and what the intender was. It was not a god, so was it the lightning bolt? We can create our own 'purpose', which is purely subjective, but we cannot have an 'objective' purpose without a reason or intent.
Well put. I agree.
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
