DO HUMANS HAVE A PURPOSE?

SCIENCE QUESTIONS

DO HUMANS HAVE A PURPOSE?

OR ARE WE NATURE'S MISTAKE?

Science shows us how every life form exists to occupy a niche, an opportunity to take in resources, recycle them, and maintain life on Earth - always adapting to the environment, always amazingly resourceful in their efforts to survive and reproduce.

LIFE is a web with each species and each individual having a role to play.  Every creature, no matter how small, has a purpose.

It's as if LIFE took on a myriad of disguises in order to work within a variety of physical environments and thrive. Everything is renewed and eventually recycled.  LIFE uses everything it can - liquids, gases, solids - and specializes to survive in even the most challenging of environments, such as those surrounding submarine volcanic vents with hot magma and sulphur.

All of which raises the question of human's usefulness in LIFE's grand scheme.  Homo Sapiens has populated the earth for just a blip of time, between 100 million to 200 million years during Earth's 4.6 billion.  Maybe we - who regard ourselves the crown of creation - could be nothing more than nature's mistake - to be eventually corrected by natural means or by human self-destruction.

I have deliberately left the religious aspect out of this question. I believe in God but there may be a larger picture in His act of creation. 

Like most people I am closely familiar with the intelligence and goodness of our animal companions - and devastated by the evil and destructiveness so prevalent in my own species. Perhaps God will give it another try.
 

Life in extreme environments:  http://www.astrobiology.com/extreme.html

500 million year old mistake led to humans - http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/dna-mistake-evolution-120724.htm


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