• Question: What is the point of life?

    Asked by 666bekiibooblack666 to Donna, Jo, Mark, Stuart, timcraggs on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by kday4, rushfita01, moseleal01, clarkrm02.
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      Tim Craggs answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      What a question!

      And not one that science can really answer, in my opinion. Science can tell us how we came to be here, how we work, how we think even, but I don’t think it will ever be able to tell is why we are here, or what the point of our existence is. These questions are left to philosophy and theology.

      What do yo think is the point of life?

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      Mark Lancaster answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Well being at UCL whose founder was Jeremy Bentham (as well as being the name of a very fine pub on University Street) then I’ll have to go for the Utilitarianism answer : to do “the greatest good for the greatest number of people”

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      Donna MacCallum answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I would say that the major driving force in any type of life is to survive and reproduce.

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      Joanna Buckley answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Well, the earth would be a bit dull without us humans on it. We’re all part of a massive cycle and we’re only a miniscule part of it but without us, nothing would come after us.

      We wouldn’t have the X Factor for a start and life, in my opinion, then would not be worth living!

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