Share your worldview?

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Origin
How do you think we got here - how did humans originate?

There was no first human.  We have been retrospectively categorised into existence.

I, for one, think this was a mistake.

Where did the universe/world come from? Big Bang, God, other?

In the beginning was the ... Equilibrium.

Harmony was everywhere and nowhere. Matter played with anti-matter cancelling themselves out and gods played with anti-gods in the same non-physical, pre-physics kinda way.

Then an improbable, post-human descendant of Min the powerful™ travelled back in time and farted.

Yes, that's right, you heard it here first ... the universe was created by the gaseous disturbance emitted from the bowels of a temporally-challenged descendant of Min The Almighty!

In an infinitely small container (the proto-universe) the vibrations caused by the fart created an interference pattern as the infinitely small fart particles (farticles) reverberated ... bumping, binding, bounding and rebounding against each other. But in a boundless and boundaryless container the farticles stretched and stretched and stretched like strings ... rippling strings that grew into waves ... and like ripples on a pond or the waves of the ocean, the peaks and troughs multiplied and overlapped ... creating the space-time fabric as we know it and the laws of physics were born.

F=MA

Farticle = Min the Almighty!

You know it makes sense.

Meaning
What do you think the purpose of life is?

Other than proper sentence construction, see signature... it's to pass on our DNA.

Does human life have meaning? If so, what gives that meaning?

Again, see signature... the meaning of life is the experience of living.

Are humans more significant than other creatures? Are we special? Why?

Thinking tools.  We got 'em and they are our legacy.

Morality
Why do we have moral ethics?

We don't.

Why do some things ‘seem’ bad (like murder)?

Chemical alerts.

Do good and bad exist?

Yes.  I had a power cut earlier.  My food is now bad.

How do you determine what is good or bad?

The smell coming from my fridge.

Are good and evil subjective or universal/absolute?

No, they're not.

If you don't believe in sin, do you ever feel guilty?

Guilt is relative.  Just ask my catholic flatmate who didn't tell me that they hadn't paid the electricity bill for a friggin' year and now won't answer my calls.

I doubt I'll feel guilty about what I'll do when I catch up with her!

Destiny
What happens to us after death?

Cremation, burial, your choice.  Some onlookers might cry a bit.

Is there a heaven / hell? 

In literature, yes.  I've seen pictures in books at the library.

If so, how do you get there?

Take the No. 27 bus to Hammersmith.  They have a good library.

Is there anything specific you have to do?

You need to be member.  There's some kind of form-completion ritual and you have to be quiet.

Oh and don't pee in the fire bucket.  That's bad.

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1) How do you deal with the idea of ceasing to exist after death - or doesn't it bother you?
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I've been looking forward to it all my life.

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2) How do you explain what could be considered evidence of intelligent design (such as DNA)
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I would explain it by recognising that the considerer was a poor judge of evidence.

I teach intelligent design and DNA is not in that category.

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2)  - or the statistical improbability we could have happened by random occurrence.
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Any alternative current state has the self same statistical improbability.  Sharp-shooter's fallacy.

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Another is - Can you explain why you became an atheist? But that could easily be a topic for another thread.

I got lucky.  The app didn't load and I remained unprogrammed.