Thursday 16 December 2021

Naturalism isn't nihilism?

Someone just said to me in a facebook group:

 "I believe there's a reason and purpose to our lives. Naturalism isn't nihilism."//

I responded saying:

It is. It holds we are mere sophisticated biological robots with no free will living out our purposeless lives in a purposeless Universe. Very soon, we shall all cease to exist. Human beings will become extinct. The Earth will be swallowed up by the Sun when it turns into a red giant. And eventually, all life in the Universe will end. And nothing will ever happen again.

Naturalism could not be more bleak in its outlook. Of course, whilst we're still alive, we can enjoy ourselves. Create temporary meaning before eternal nothing descends upon us all.

I don't believe in any of that nonsense though. We have no reason to subscribe to naturalism.

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