Atheist brainiacs, can you answer this?

Question

When asked why do you exist? what is the purpose of your life? Most (atheist) would answer by saying to reproduce and pass on genes for the continuation of the species or something like that. But why is that? Why has nature (as you would acredit the system to) create a system to sustain itself for an indefinate amount of time? Why does life propagate and try to reproduce itself? Is life just a series of accidents? Chew on that.

I'm not try to change anyone here. And of course I don't know the correct answer. I just wanted to put this out there to challenge the braniacs.

Answer 1

I am not an atheist (Roman Catholic here), but your question is easy to answer from their point of view.
If we remove God and a Divine Intelligence from the equation, then the creation of the Earth and life is a cosmic accident that has evolved over at least a billion years. In that time, plants and animals got more and more complicated due to genetic mutation and natural selection.
What does this all mean? It means "There IS NO purpose." Life just IS. There is no driving force, no purpose to which to strive, no end-goal, other than the simple "eat, sleep, and breed" which is instinctual in all forms of life.
Why does life propogate? Selfish reasons. I want to live, and I want my family (who is part "me") to live. Therefore, if I have a large family...and my family has a large family...I will, in a way, live forever!

If you have no God, you are hard-pressed to find a purpose in life.

Answer 2

no chewing, buddy.
you try to proof you point, that there is a god.
many tried to proof.
but the more clever, do not argue like this, do not try to proof like this.
There is no proof for either side. I can live with that. can you ?
I doubt you can.
Go to a diferent site, where there are forums to discuss those questions. This is not the right place, since here you cant discuss, just make a single statement.

to answer your question:
Why do I exist ?
I dont care, why. I do exists, and thats for me what counts.
My purpose: I do give my life a purpose. A purpose I choose.
I dont agree, that most atheist say the purpose of life is to repdroduce. I dont say that, I am Atheist. now what.
To reproduce is a mechanism, not a purpose. Thats out of topic for me.
Why has nature created a life to sustain over time, and why does life reproduce ? I dont know, and again, I dont care.
Last one : no, life is not a series of accidents, but sometimes it is : my life was an accident.....my dad banged my mom ust for fun, it was not planned for them to have a baby.....does that counts as accident ? When I have children, and grand children, so then you can say its a serie....

Answer 3

this seems like a very very very silly question to me. Why does having a higher spiritual power give your life MORE meaning? You presuppose that you have the right answer and all atheists have the wrong answer, which is very ignorant on your part. You also stereotype their answer.

I have another question, have you actually ever spoken to an atheist and asked them this question? You gave "their answer", which I've never heard from an atheist before. Basically "the answer" you gave is a high school biology textbook answer to what animals live for ("Just to start the next generation").

Every atheist I've ever asked similar questions range from "Make a difference, do my part." to "[Insert common human life goal here]". Basically the same damn thing you'll here from any non-ultra conservative religious person would say, who normally say their life goals and gratuitously throw in "god" somewhere in the sentence to sanitize their goals.


Now for your other parts of the questions:
"Why does life propagate and try to reproduce itself?"

I'm taking it your answer would be something like "For god." That's quite a dumb answer as well, for if you are christian you must also believe that only humans have souls. It would follow that by life you meant "all of life", and therefor your assumed answer I gave up there would be wrong, because nothing other than religious humans live for got (your the minority, get it?).

"Is life just a series of accidents?"

I'm hoping you aren't a Creationist, because then every single thing I've said so far will fall on absolutely deaf ears. OK, so creation of life, intelligent design or not. This is a rough question for both sides sense one side has no proof and the other has equally vague speculation. But if we are in the questions phase I think it's a fair assessment to say "Are absolutely astounding coincidences any different than miracles?". Technically it's semantically identical, because both words describe the same situation, only the implications of the words are different.

So think of it this way, an atheist thinks you are just as dumb as you think s/he is.


RE: Add Details
-next time premise the thing with "I'm not biased, just wanted to challenge for answers" then =p

Answer 4

I am by no means a brainiac, but I will try... I exist because my parents had sex and my mom got pregnant. The purpose of this life is different for everyone. Some believe that reason they are here is to reproduce, and that's fine, but I believe there is more to it than that. I believe it's more about legacy, not simply reproduce but to then teach and nurture your offspring so that they may make a better world for themselves and their offspring. That is the only way to achieve eternal life, to be remembered in the hearts and minds of those you touched when you were alive. Life propagates, cause that's what life is. if it didn't propagate, then their wouldn't be life. maybe I'm just not understanding that question...

Answer 5

Spirit and technological know-how don't combine. There are an same quantity of "exams" to end up people include souls as there are "exams" to end up there's a God. And considering that God's lifestyles is a hottly disputed subject, good, there are not any. ----- "My factor is, you aren’t going to make any attempt to appear for some thing that you just don’t consider is there kinda like whilst each person idea the arena used to be flat and no one desired to sail beyond the horizon for worry of falling off the earth. Who’s watching dumb now?" Well, I -would- prefer aside your grammar, however I'd as an alternative discover what you stated right here. You are not able to appear for some thing that is lifestyles has no proof. Basically, what you are announcing is: "How do we all know unicorns do not exist if we've on no account made an attempt to uncover one?" Personally, I wouldn't have a drawback with unicorns, however is not it a waste of time to appear for some thing that is handiest ever been heard of in a tale e-book? Something that is proof has on no account been observed? Something widley accredited to be a fable?

Answer 6

Done chewing. Why shouldn't it be just a series of accidents?
Why does everything have to have a meaning, simply because we've reached a stage in our evolution where we are able to appreciate meaning? Why do people even demand that there must be "a purpose to my life"? Where I come from, that's called 'wanting jam on it' - you have the amazing good fortune to exist - enjoy it and see where it leads you. Don't weight it down with a need for "the purpose of it all". If you have a specific purpose, it'll find you, won't it?

Answer 7

If you subscribe to the theory of evolution (which I do), then life is random and a series of accidents. Some are happy accidents for humans like taste and sex. Evolution is based off imperfection and what works. So life has not evolved to a live-forever solution. Which has reasons that go into a species need of reproduction to continue the species. If you genes were to continue to spread from you or me forever, we could only offer so many variables of offspring, which would limit a species. Evolution needs us to mate, spread our genes and then die to continue our species. That way we can adapt to our environment.

Answer 8

Nobody knows. The only difference is that I don't pretend to know. Face it; your beliefs were made up long ago to explain things that ancient humans did not understand. They would think "Why does it rain?', "Oh, there must be some god doing it." There is no higher purpose of humans. Isn't it a little humbling that in all this chaos we have developed the power to reason, and question our existence? Chew on that.

Answer 9

easy, because nature doesn't want to b part of an everything, the "dead" everything, and so, as always the instinct of auto-conservation, thus, nature is not impermanent, so we can not say that it will be forever, because just the fact that being begins with an end, so, all life, be it thousands , billions, even whole planets, solar sistems, will eventually die out, to the the "after death" i also have an explanation, one which will rocket through your brain, but no, i will not say it now, so, in conclusion life is running a race with time: now, nature is in first place, but it knows it will lose, so it strains to the maximum to "live" as long as it can, so, the procces is not just reproducing, it's, actually the fact that no one can WIN against time, but you CAN FIGHT!

Answer 10

I am an agnostic brainiac so I may not count.

I think your questions are very thought provoking and have bothered humans and their ancestors since they/we became sentient.

I still have not had good answers on these questions from any credible source, only speculation or outright lies written by men to control other men.

If I personally witness a booming voice from the heavens, I'll let you know.