Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.

[Cyberman]

Penis of Cod, what is the purpose of a flower? Of a sunset? Of a star?

Flowering and fruit, crops are for agriculture if you go back to say the Carboniferous all you would really have to eat are some fern and bracken or whatever.

Sorry, you'll just have to imagine the QI klaxon. The purpose of a flower is for sexual propagation of the plant species, but for the plant itself the only purpose is the processing of light and carbon into sugars (this is only true of course for oxygenating plants containing chlorophyll). Agriculture is a human-imposed purpose, nothing whatsoever to do with the plant. If anything, it could be argued that the purpose of humanity and pollenating insects is the survival of the vegetable races.

You can see there how there isn't much in the way of decent grub to sustain a global civilisation.

Doesn't matter, it has nothing to do with any perceived purpose of plants. Stop thinking so anthropically.

Stars essentially have two main important functions for life.

I don't care, I never mentioned life.

1) They are the primary energy source for all living processes for the deep sea thermal vent dwellers. In the food chain/web it provides the means of food production of the primary producers.



2) The larger short lived stars are the factories for producing the heavy elements required to manufacture smaller long lived stars with orbiting planets.

Both of these are completely incidental to a star's purpose, if such a term can be applied at all. A star converts hydrogen into helium and that is all that would concern it if it could be concerned. Once it has to face the battle for continued survival over gravitational collapse, then and only then comes the question of heavier elements. However, precisely none of this happens for the benefit of any lifeforms that may happen to be around.

Humans can of course appreciate the natural beauty of the God created universe if you want to bring up sunsets.

Again I don't care. We were talking purpose, not human interpretation.

What you're looking at is a God made piece of art.

So is this:



Those are ants infected by a parasitic plant spore called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which grows inside its body and controls its brain to make it climb a tree, jam its mandibles into the bark and wait for death, whereupon the parasite bursts out from its brain and generates more spores. All things bright and beautiful indeed, but again what is the purpose?