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Often lost in the debate over how life began is the equally significant question of why life began. Or, to personalize it, why do you exist? Is there a reason, a purpose, for your life?
All religions fundamentally exist, some have concluded, to try to answer that question, along with its close relative: Is there life after death? It has even been stated that belief in evolution is itself a religion. Indeed, by the dictionary definition of religion as "a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith," it certainly qualifies.
So, for evolutionists who deny the existence of a Creator and claim that life spontaneously came into existence, intellectual honesty eventually requires them to step into the religious arena and tackle the meaning-of-life question. In fact, many do. Their answer is simple: Since life arose and evolved through a series of random coincidences, there is no meaning or purpose in our existence. We are merely an accident.
For some people that is no problem, but the concept nags deeply at many others. Eliminate a life-giving God from the picture and something has to replace not only Him, but also the idea of His purpose for our existence. Evolution does not merely dismiss a Creator. It rejects any spiritual meaning for our existence. And since we tend to shape our behavior according to our understanding of the significance of life, thinking there is no inherent purpose in life logically leaves the entire rationale for the ethics, morality and law by which individuals and societies govern themselves up for debate.
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