Is there a reason for the existence of humans?

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...according to whom? I think that this question is a bit too general to really answer. Is this question meaning "Is it important that humans were created", or that "Are humans important to the creator's wishes", or "could a different form have had the same importance as the human form", or...well, there are just too many variables for me to give much of an opinion. Sometimes the simplest questions are the most difficult to answer.

The more important question is does it matter?

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I think there is a reasoning of the existance of humans, but not necessarily for.

-TC

But that is the deep, underlying question that inspires all religion and all philosophy, isn't it?

I do not mean to be flippant, but everything that I read seeks to answer the question "why are we here?" This is immediately followed by denying the only plausible answer (because the course of natural events led to this point in time, and all that we see), and seeking something else. I find that fascinating.

I could answer the question "why am I here" by saying "because my mother and father had sex." That's not particularly satisfying, is it? We're not looking for a simple cause and effect "reason" but a purposeful one.

And that, I think, is why we always wind up with a religious answer involving a deity. Because there cannot be a "purposeful reason" without a purposer (to paraphrase GW Bush, the decider).

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