Question for Atheists

[The Reality Salesman01]

Guess what DeNihilists! Physical things have no meaning; they just are. Physical processes have no purpose; they just happen. And since your worldview is that everything is physical, then you have nothing with which to make real intentional or teleological properties! Truly deterministic processes do not have goals, purposes, or intentions. Nor do deterministic processes have meaning or significance. They move along their inevitable and unalterable course. Since humans, according to you, are walking talking electro-chemical reactions any meaning you think your life has is an illusion. Any purpose in which you believe is a rationalization of events over which you have no real control. You’re fooling yourselves.

Chad, deterministic processes do not imply fatalistic outcomes. Everything that is physical is subject to change, even the neurophysiological processes that contemplate them. If there were an additional substance, then change is not something that need concern you. Change effects physical things. Deterministic events produce change. At what point does adding non-physical substances to our experience produce an interpretation that makes more sense?