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Shroobsworth
12/21/17 2:02:02 PM
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People throw this around like its gospel. Such a nihilistic view that when you dissect it and bring it to its simplest form, then it implies the Big Bang is useless and existence doesn't have a purpose.

A valid viewpoint, but not a healthy one to fully embody.
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Unsugarized_Foo
12/21/17 2:02:41 PM
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Huh
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Metua
12/21/17 2:03:19 PM
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philsov
12/21/17 2:08:16 PM
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Who cares if the truth is "healthy"?

Evolution is a combination of random mutations/gene expressions coupled with natural selection as dictated by the environment, which affects the fitness of both themselves and their offspring.
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Shotgunnova
12/21/17 2:09:13 PM
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Forward is a direction, isn't it?
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darkphoenix181
12/21/17 2:09:58 PM
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if it had a purpose then it would imply there is a God or force like God overseeing it
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darkphoenix181
12/21/17 2:10:24 PM
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Shotgunnova posted...
Forward is a direction, isn't it?


evolution doesn't go forward
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eston
12/21/17 2:11:17 PM
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It does have a purpose though, and that is to adapt to natural conditions in such a way that you are advantageous in propagating your species
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Giant_Aspirin
12/21/17 2:12:08 PM
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Shroobsworth posted...
and existence doesn't have a purpose.


that is correct.
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Shroobsworth
12/21/17 2:13:27 PM
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Giant_Aspirin posted...
Shroobsworth posted...
and existence doesn't have a purpose.


that is correct.

You can't prove it doesn't, just like you can't prove it does.
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darkphoenix181
12/21/17 2:15:23 PM
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eston posted...
It does have a purpose though, and that is to adapt to natural conditions in such a way that you are advantageous in propagating your species


and who or what gave it said purpose?

thing is, this purpose you say it has also is not real

it is what we as humans put on it

it just exists and does what it does

to say it does that to some end implies it either thinks as a force or had a decree placed upon it by another cosmic force or being
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philsov
12/21/17 2:29:50 PM
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eston posted...
It does have a purpose though, and that is to adapt to natural conditions in such a way that you are advantageous in propagating your species


Or become a new species altogether!

Or, if we are to define evolution as mutation+natural selection, then many times evolution also causes all sorts of death and extinction on both the small (birth defects) and large (die off due to drought) scale.
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Gamer99z
12/21/17 2:32:57 PM
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Well existence does in fact serve no purpose in any grander sense of the word. What you see is what you get, when it's over it's over.
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