My Life as I Wished I Lived It
The meaning of life is a topic that has been debated as long as time itself. Some argue it is to be happy, some argue it is to form a healthy relationship with God, some argue it is being truly grateful for what you have, and some spend their whole life searching for this meaning. I believe many would be shocked at the statement there is no meaning of life because it’s such a direct contradiction to what we’ve been taught our whole lives. When we examine the meaning of life through a scientific viewpoint, we see just how little purpose there is in the human being. We were not put on this Earth by any omnipotent, supernatural, all knowing creator, but science tells us that we evolved from our primate ancestors. All the life that Earth has known began as a lonely single celled organism; from there, other life forms developed, humans being no different. There was no guiding spiritual factor in the development of humans either: cells simply continued to reproduce and weak traits got...