By J P Moreland
Scriptorium Daily
But what if there is no ultimate purpose? Suppose we played Monopoly with one rule change: You may do anything during your turn. So you put hotels everywhere. I follow by dumping the board over and turning on the television. Immediately you realize that your move is futile. Why? Because if the game as a whole is without purpose, the individual moves within the game are meaningless. What if atheistic Darwinists are right: we are the result of a blind, meaningless process and life is just “one darn thing after another”? In such a world the difference between Mother Teresa and Saddam Hussein reduces to the difference between a Big Mac and a Whopper. (more)
