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Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon. —Abraham Lincoln

Does Life Have Meaning? June 12, 2007

Posted by Rastaban in : Meaning & Value, Naturalism , 19 comments

Perhaps the most popular objection to naturalism is the claim that without a God life is meaningless. Let’s take a look at it. This is actually a two-part claim

  1. under a natural world view life has no meaning
  2. God provides meaning to life

But right away we notice something strange about this: it implies that we must obtain our meaning from something outside of us, namely God; and yet apparently there is no need for God to obtain meaning from something outside of himself. There is an unspoken assumption here that God is inherently meaningful. Or else the assumption is that God doesn’t have a need to be meaningful.

Why wouldn’t either of those options apply not just to God but to us as well? (more…)