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Anonymous
For those of you that subscribe to the idea of evolution, how do you see "life" as in the grand scheme of things?

Personally, I see it similar to a chemical reaction like fire, only rather than simply being self-perpetuating, it has the added factor of becoming more complex as it grows.

A great deal of people insist that we have some kind of "purpose" in the universe. I really don't see things that way. I don't think "purpose" is altogether important, I see it as a man-made idea that matters as much or as little as anything else. I'm content to believe that we simply exist for no specific reason.

Though, from my perspective it would seem that everything that has happened was indeed "destined" to happen in the sense of each thing in nature is a consequence of something else. Like dominoes falling down in line, the universe appears to operate in a similar fashion, each event a result of a previous event. I imagine that if one could see and understand everything down to the smallest particle, one could predict everything that would ever happen.
>> Anonymous
We do not live in a deterministic universe. You might want to read more about quantum physics and emergence to know why. Suffice to say, if you restarted the universe, you'd end up with a different kind of universe every time. Or indeed if you restarted yesterday, you'd get innumerable different todays.
>> Anonymous
>>201900
What would you say that root of that randomness is?
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>>201904
whatever seed was set in the random
>> Anonymous
Claiming that life has a reason is claiming to know something able to give it such reason, which would entail intelligence is involved either in the creation or of the sustainance of life. I'm yet to see any reliable proof of such intelligence.