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The Mystery of Existence: Where did natural environments and complex organisms came from? What is the origin of life ? Part 2 with Richard Dawkins, Jessica Frazier, Silvia Jonas, Richard Swinburne and Jack Symes
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The Purpose of an Atheist
Atheism is not a religion, it's not a faith. It's just a lot of individual people who don't believe in the supernatural and so each individual makes their own purpose. I think purpose is a nonsensical concept until late in the universe when beings with brains or equivalent of brains come into being capable of having purposes. To talk about purpose at the beginning of the cosmologies, it seems to me to be a nonsensical thing. There is no purpose, it's a non question. Some of us make our purpose in studying science and that's a pretty worthwhile one. Other people find their own purpose in human relations, as I do in all the various pastimes that we have
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