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Pretty much every impulse we experience can be traced back to basic instincts: survival, procreation, the survival of the species. These things may seem pretty remote at times, in our 21st century lives, but our evolution has relied on us becoming in expert in finding safe places to live...

The science points to a big bang, but why it should have taken place is something scientists are debating. We may never know the answer. The idea of a creator is something that has made sense to humans from early times, but as the science of the universe has been unveiled, more of us have...

As an atheist I don't have an answer to that. All "atheist" means is that you don't believe in a god. We're all born that way, but some people go on to get religion. Really the question may be better directed at someone of faith, because they're the ones claiming to "know" about existence. I...

Thanks, you put it eloquently. The bit I still can't get my head around is that improbable events will NECESSARILY happen because of an infinite amount of time. Couldn't it be argued that however long time lasts, some things will never happen, simply because chance hasn't made it so? The...

I don't believe in an afterlife but I am intrigued by this idea of infinity making everything that seems improbable, possible. The way I've heard it expressed is that there must be an infinite number of universes and an infinite number of variations, some big, some small. So there's a parallel...