Claim CA620:
If man arose by chance, life would have no purpose or meaning.
Source:
Morris, Henry M. 1985. Scientific Creationism. Green Forest, AR: Master
Books, p. 178
Response:
- Purpose can come from anyone. The same object can have different
purposes to different people or to the same person at different times.
If you, God, or anyone else, want to do something with your life, then
your life has purpose. Nothing else is relevant.
- Purpose is not determined by origins. Things can have purpose even if
their origin is due to chance. The North Star, for example, came to
its position by chance, but people still find a purpose for it.
- Like most people, virtually all creationists already acknowledge that
people arise by chance. In the process of sexual recombination, it is
chance that determines which genes come from each parent; thus chance
determines the genetics that make us who we are.
- The theory of evolution most emphatically does not say that
humans arose purely by chance.
created 2000-10-21
