:cool: Thanks

Not everything has a purpose.

Hello n:

Yes. It serves as a platform for us to exist on. Was this an intended purpose? I don't know. Something made the big bang go off.

excon

It would seem so,otherwise is would just be a big waste of space.

As a deist, I believe that some intelligent force created the universe. I therefore have to suspect they had some reason for doing so.

By the way this world is turning out, I would say that purpose was one cosmic joke. :D

I think this is probably the best way to answer this question:

http://www.templeton.org/purpose/pdfs/bq_universe.pdf

Every year the john templetson foundation asks a number of scientists and scholars for their views on a big question. The first one they asked is the one you're asking here, and the document above shows their answers.