Rob asks:
?This question is not addressed to those who believe in an afterlife so please, spare me the mumbo jumbo. Anyway, what's the point in all the trouble of living if one day you just die and it's all in vain??
We seem to have something in common in that we both appear to like numbers. Getting to the issue I am surprised to find that so many members that do not have religious beliefs to answer their questions fall short of enlarging their scientific concepts to provide the answers normally provided by religion. It is a simple matter of creating a new belief basis.
1. Science tells us that the Universe originated without any form of divine intervention. Life is a natural progression of the development of the Universe. Life has no purpose and death a natural result.
2. Religion recites that all was created by a God or supernatural being that was in turn responsible for the life forms we see. This God also provide for a reason for life and a proposed life of sorts after death.
3. The major difference is that science offers no meaning for life and that life?s termination is final and the entire experience worthless.
4. The answer, to provide comfort to those of science that require it, is to simply enlarge on the basic conclusions of science origins. If the Universe can originate of its own then why not originate a secondary kind of Universe to follow the first. A place where all the unfaithful can go and continue to debate the issues they enjoy and live the good life. There is no stretch of logic here because if you can believe this all started on its own there is no limit to where that can take you.
Cheers
jjw
