Why does the universe spawn life like this? why are we here? What purpose does the universe have to create us?

Question

(a non religious question for the non religious)

Answer 1

One of the ironic answers may be that there is no reason at all. Does there really need to be?

The answer alone could just be, simply, "life."

Answer 2

What makes you think we have a purpose? What if there is no reason? What if its just a freak accident? Just because you don't like it don't mean it ain't true...

The real question you are driving at (but will not realize for many, many years, if ever) is 'why does anything exist at all?'. Since something can never come from nothing, something has always existed. That something is either (a) god or (b) infinite space (i.e., the universe). What is more likely to have always existed, the most complex thing in the universe (god) or the least complex thing in the universe (space)?

Really, what this boils down to is a failure of imagination on your part. You can't imagine infinity, therefore there must be a god. But seriously, why do you think God can just exist all by himself but not the universe?

Stop asking 'why' and start asking 'how', then you'll start to get it.

All things considered, though, your question really isn't that bad...for a monkey, I mean.

P.S.

Because I'm a nice guy, I'll help you along. The next time you post a question like this try to interject some of the following:

*What happened before the big bang?
*Where did the laws that govern the universe come from?
*What is the universe expanding into?
*If you go to the edge of the universe and then go ten feet further, where would you be?
*Where did the super dense matter that exploded to become the universe (big bang) come from?
*In an infinitude of possibilities, why do these particular laws of physics and set of atoms exist?
*Atoms assemble into meaningful composites, much like a jigsaw puzzle...but would you ever consider that the jigsaw puzzle pieces were not created for that purpose?

Answer 3

On your three questions:

1. Why not? Self-organization is a common phenomenon, well known and happening all the time. It would be very strange and unnatural if something would forbid self-organization and increase of complexity of forms of life. It would be indeed as unnatural as religious myths.

2. Why not? By 'we' you mean probably humans and other living creatures on this planet. If we would be anywhere else, you'd ask same question (unless realize that it has not much sense).

3. You compare yourself with Universe. You go shopping having a purpose to buy something. What make you think that Universe is something similar to you and may have 'purpose'? There is no any evidence of that.

Finally, about your comment, "A non-religious question for the non-religious":
How can you ask a question otherwise?!

1. A 'religious question' about universe does not make sense, because it would be asked not to find out or clarify something, but to confirm or not confirm with some religious belief.

2. You cannot ask a religious person something about a universe, because they have no knowledge, nor tools to get knowledge. You should read scientific or science-popular journals/books.

Answer 4

the question is not What purpose does the universe have to create us?

the real question is How did the universe has to be to have created us?

because the concept of purpose is purely human, because an intent or a purpose is entirely dependent on a subject, the universe is not a subject, the universe has laws, and everything that happens in it has a cause as in cause and consecuance, not a psychological cause

Answer 5

And you expect to have a question like that answered by a bunch of people that have nothing to do but to answer questions they don't have the answer just to score some points?

"The Universe" doesn't need a reason. Not everything happens with a "plan". That's a human way of thinking. The Universe is not a dude so don't try to understand it. We have limited human minds.

You'll figure it out when you die. There's something to look forward to :)

Answer 6

"Why does the universe spawn life like this?"

Because the universe follows the laws of physics.

The universe didn't have a purpose to create us, it just happened. There is no reason why we are here, that's just the way it is. There's no official meaning of life, every person has to find their own meaning.

Answer 7

the universe doesn't care about us, we're just microbes on a dust speck as far as the universe is concerned.
There's 50-100 Billion galaxies with 100 Billion stars each. We live on one little planet around one of the small stars. What makes us special that the universe (or god for that matter) should even give a cr*p?

Answer 8

Seems as if there is an upward trend towards complexity in the universe. This is actually a religious question though. Science cannot answer it.

Answer 9

The universe did not create us God did, and this is not a religious answer it is the truth.

Answer 10

The primary reason for the existence of each individual is to evolve, and to serve the evolution of the species (something the glaring majority of humanity seems to be entirely ignorant of). All species evolve, adapting to the environment toward the event of achieving perfection. Some would call this perfection "divinity." Within my theology then, one can say that we are here to become divine.

Answer 11

Life is a fundamental Power of said Universe. We are here to help provide meaning to existence and to individually experience this particular level of reality (usually multiple times).