Reply #10: Assuming there is a purpose may be fallacy. [View All]

[Ready4Change]

What does the Earth use diamonds for? Copper? Helium?

It's entirely possible there is no purpose for Earth. All this may just be a cosmic roll of the dice, and we just happen to have a ringside seat to this particularly complex corner of the universe. (A seat we owe to the very complexity.)

Or, if there is a purpose, there is no reason to think absolutely everything here on Earth serves that purpose. Some items might just be byproducts of the execution of that purpose. Like your car, which doesn't really use the carbon monoxide in the exhaust for anything. That's just a byproduct of the burning of petroleum for motive energy.

It's nice to think that everything has a purpose. But niceness does not make the idea valid.