The Purpose of Life

by radar 24 years ago 3 Replies latest 24 years ago jw friends

radar 24 years ago

Every living thing as an overwhelming desire to live and reproduce itself. Why?
When life began, why did it want to reproduce itself behond its own existence?
Any takers?
Radar

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julien 24 years ago

The best explanation for this I have ever read was in The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Why don't you pick up a copy.

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FrightMare 24 years ago

The only way I can explain the alacrity of living things towards reproduction is through the programming that their creator engineered within them. By creating mankind with strong mating instincts, for example, the creator would insure that the human race would never die out.
Through a materialist perspective solely, I find it a mystery as to how a desire for reproduction could arise, especially since it would have to be accidental, haphazard, random, blind, a sheer mistake.

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radar 24 years ago

Frightmare
Many organisms such as diseases,are intelligent and kill to exist.
Their sole driving force often kills its host and moves on.
Your reasoning, makes God a gruesome designer.
Radar

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