Bahá’ís of Benton and Linn Counties, Oregon

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Why Are We Here? Ask a Cow.

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Everyone who has ever lived has asked themselves this fundamental question: why are we here?

In arguing that science refutes God, physicist and atheist Lawrence Krauss suggests that there is no answer to the question of why we are here, and that even asking the question is wrong-headed. To recap his proposition:

… human beings are also inevitably programmed to ask, “Why?” as we’ve heard it. But the “Why?” question is ill-posed, because it presumes purpose.… What if there is no purpose?

If there is no purpose, then human philosophers really are, as the Baha’i teachings suggest, not nearly as wise as cows... for more, click here.