If God exists, why did he create life? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Thursday, December 16, 2010, 05:57 (5090 days ago) @ dhw
edited by unknown, Thursday, December 16, 2010, 06:07

When I ask why God created life, purpose is the whole point of my question. Viruses and bacteria, food sources, removal of toxic gases, the body's absorption of zinc etc. are all essential to life, but they do not explain the purpose of life itself. They are ... as I have already acknowledged several times ... means whereby life is sustained. Not many people would argue that God created life in order to provide viruses, algae and zinc with a purpose! You have even given dinosaurs (and my friend the dodo) a similar purpose: "to turn this lump of rock into something inhabitable by humanity". Believe that if you will ... at least it's a simple enough goal for both of us to understand. However, you say: "I view all creation as a purposeful movement towards a goal that I do not yet understand." It is the goal which you do not understand that is the subject of my question: "why did God create life?" How about: for his own entertainment? Sorry, but you still haven't even dented the theory.-We keep dancing around each other. There is nothing entertaining about the absorption of zinc or CO, or many of the multitude of other processes that happen throughout the universe. Which to me indicates that the purpose is something other than entertainment. I am not arguing that he did/does not find it entertaining, simply that entertainment was not the the end goal itself. My inability to provide a replacement goal is not a reason to use entertainment as the answer.