On Aug 26, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
...a godless universe is largely a purposeless one if we subtract humanity from it...
Presumably the universe is not "largely" purposeless because it includes humans and humans are purposive beings. Which would be the case were humans "largely" the only purposive beings in it. Which is clearly not the case since even this little planet contains an assortment of purposive beings (the other members of the animal kingdom) vastly outnumbering the few humans. Not to mention that the universe, by all accounts (save that of the six-day creationists) is limitlessly larger than our infinitesimal corner of it and contains therefore a limitless number of stellar systems with a limitless number of life-sustaining planets and hence a limitless number of purposive beings, even after humanity's (inevitable) subtraction from it.
Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos
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