What is the purpose of Humans on Earth?

Question

Every living being other than humans have a purpose, they maintain the food chain at the least and do not destroy earth's valuable resources. Then what is the purpose of Humans on earth. Why and what are we here for? All that humans do is to plunder all the natural resources and pollute it. Humans are not really required to maintain the food chain and prevent one life form dominating all. On the other hand, humans are the ones who have outgrown their intended population so much so that one day earth could sink under the human weight! (a bit far fetched...but a possibility) I have being trying to find an answer to this question nagging my mind for quite some time with no real definite answer.........can you friends...fellow humans provide a near truth?

Answer 1

i can see that we've quite have been a nuisance to the world..does the world really wants/needs us.....yes some of us are helping to plant trees, recycle,and help 2 clean the environment...but the damage has been done....and many of us aren't even helping... i think the only reason that were are here is to appreciate the world(besides on destroying it and consuming anything we desire).... nothing more..

i know we will never completely know what our
purpose is ....maybe all of us has a hint on what is our purpose..but as for as i know our knowledge is limited..if our creation was coincidence then we will never know...but if GOD really created us then surely we will find out for sure.....we will find the answer when were dead....

Answer 2

My theory is that humans were created for the purpose on figuring out what their purposes are. A human is the worlds smartest being with us using 10% of our brain, and look where 10% got us now! As we progress into the future with new historical events taking place with new technologys taking place, we still wonder how we were created and whats our purpose. So again, my theory is that we were created to discover our purpose somepoint in the next billion years, and on the way, have questions and take place in historical events.

Answer 3

The purpose for humans on earth is to sit at their computers, log on to Yahoo Answers, and answer an endless stream of questions until they die.

That's what I plan to do. Sit here at this computer and try to answer as many questions as I can before I finally croak and smash my head on the keyboard.

I want my loved ones to find me all swollen and stiff with rigormortis with the screen gone blank. Only after the authorites have read my harddrive do they discover that I died from Yahoo Answering. That's my purpose. That should be your purpose, too. It should be the purpose of every human being on this planet to Yahoo Answer.

Think about it. If Mahmoud Amedinejad and President Musharraf, and the good folks over in Myanmar would just shut up and Yahoo Answer, the world would be a much better place.

Yahooooooo-hoooo!

Answer 4

Native Americans seem to fit in with Nature perfectly. Anthropological development has been telescoping so every phase change has been occuring with within a smaller and smaller time frame. I can't say why were here. Maybe we aren't supposed to have technology. Technology destroys religion and fosters apathy. Some people people new technology is given to us by demons. I sure don't seem to have the ability to invent or even understand some complex things that were created by other humans.
If you are interested in the idea of humans overpopulating the earth to unfathomable extremes read the book The World inside.
The movie Waking Life also has a lot of information about life.

Edit: Religiously speaking we no longer fulfill our purpose. We were supposed to be companions with god and we fit in with all life in the garden of eden. The serpent promised Adam and Eve that if they ate the forbidden fruit they would have all the powers of god. Maybe people will someday. Look at the potential in stem cells and robotics. Life has even been created from nothing. Here is a rundown of the Miller-Urey experiment.

The experiment used water (H2O), methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3) and hydrogen (H2). The chemicals were all sealed inside a sterile array of glass tubes and flasks connected together in a loop, with one flask half-full of liquid water and another flask containing a pair of electrodes. The liquid water was heated to induce evaporation, sparks were fired between the electrodes to simulate lightning through the atmosphere and water vapor, and then the atmosphere was cooled again so that the water could condense and trickle back into the first flask in a continuous cycle.

At the end of one week of continuous operation Miller and Urey observed that as much as 10-15% of the carbon within the system was now in the form of organic compounds. Two percent of the carbon had formed amino acids, including 13 of the 22 that are used to make proteins in living cells, with glycine as the most abundant. Sugars, lipids, and some of the building blocks for nucleic acids were also formed. Nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) themselves were not formed. As observed in all consequent experiments, both left-handed (L) and right-handed (D) optical isomers were created in a racemic mixture. However, the experiment also produced a substance which, to most life, would be a "toxic carcinogenic"[4] substance. However, these compounds, which include formaldehyde and cyanide are "necessary building blocks for important biochemical compounds, including Amino Acids".[5]

Answer 5

My best guess would be that our intelligence wasn't necessary at all in terms of evolution, but just came to be so because of a drastic past event when Africa was getting drier and drier for early humans hundreds of thousands of years ago, forcing them to move outwards. Which might've forced them to have intelligence as a so called purpose for life on Earth. So if none of this ever happened, we might've served similar purposes to other Apes and such in the food chain than having intelligence.

Answer 6

See, all these people who answered talks about their God and how he has a purpose for them. And why not? The thought of having no God and becoming just like the rest of the animals that inhabit the Earth frightens them. To them, having a "God" and "purpose" with it is the ultimate ride of life. The truth is, there is no purpose and there is no God. It is just us. We created the thought of God when we knew little. We created God so that we could make sense of things. Now, of all times is when we know a lot about our environment. So really, our existence is a mere product of what nature has become since the beginning. And do not attribute it to any God created by man. The sooner you accept that, the better.

Answer 7

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No. Nothing has any intrinsic purpose, a lion just is and does whatever it does not for any specific purpose, but because that is what is does. Trees convert CO2 into oxygen and sugar not because there is a need to do it but because they do it. When you look at the natural world you'll notice that it is basically, eat, mate, suffer, die. That's not intelligent design in anyway but evolution blundering its way to something that works but not too well.

Answer 8

Humans are just another animal and part of the whole biosphere on the Earth.

What makes us different (maybe) is that our brains have evolved more than other animals and we have taken advantage of our intelligence to dominate the planet.

This domination puts us at the top of the food chain. It is a powerful position to be in and if we don't control it carefully, we can cause substantial damage to our environment.

Hopefully we will use our brains to understand what is happening before it is too late and to curb our behaviour so that we can exist in a more balanced and sympathetic manner.

If not we will follow a route observed in collonies of bacteria on petri dishes - we will either run out of food or poison ourselves with our waste products.

Populations are determined by very simple criteria - a suitable environment to live in (habitat), amount of food available and how they deal with their waste products. A typical population will go up and down as the amount of food available changes.

So far mankind has managed to keep expanding because we have adapted the environment to support us and we have improved how we grow food.

We are currently using up our resources faster than the planet can support in the long term. We will need to curtail this use or reduce the population for long term stability.

In the end we may be wiped out by a meteorite. After all, the dinosaurs were tremendously successful, lasting for millions of years before extinction.

Answer 9

Well, I have to take issue with your assumptions. SOME humans plunder the earth; others are responsible citizens. And as for the food chain, we are at the top of the food chain......along with bears and sharks.

The PURPOSE of our existence is not a scientific question; it's a religious or philosophical one. I'm a Christian, and I believe the purpose of our lives is all about relationships-- to love God and to love others.

Answer 10

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