(August 6, 2010 at 4:06 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: No.
In fact, I have a hard time understanding why so many people seem to think there should be some sort of 'meaning' behind Life, The Universe, and Everything. ®
If life has a purpose, it is to be lived.
Everything has a purpose, in my opinion, even an orange seed. Have you ever walked through an orange grove (or apple, or vineyard, what have you) and marvled at all the seeds that will never become orange trees. In fact, in terms of a percentage, I'll bet it's a billion to one or even more. Yet every orange seed has within it the purpose of becoming a full fledged orange tree.
In this day and age, I feel sorry for young people. Coming of age in the 80's and 90's was easier because the world was expanding. You could be anything you wanted to be and there was probably a job waiting for you. Now there is less. Now we are surviving. Now we have no hope, or so it seems, of ever becoming an orange tree, metaphorically speaking.
What's good about atheism, is that you can be a seed and never worry about whether you become an orange tree--because what difference? Matter is matter. Right?
Chaos + natural selection = no purpose at all. One thing is not better than another. The human race doesn't matter any more than any particular species of grass you can name. We only live to survive.
