Those who suggest that life cannot have
objective meaning, or that life can only have relative values, do so
by rejecting the unfree activation of life itself. We may be free to
choose but it is always choice within the realities of determined
elements which define life.
Life has real objective meaning in that
biology activates life to do real living things, which we are not
legitimately free to reject. To reject the meaning of the real
activation of life and biology is to virtually accept death as
meaning.
We can even go further in finding
determined meaning in life when we affirm the objective reality of
goals in biological evolution, or a teleology of biological evolution, that moves---with
starts and stops---toward the zenith of higher evolution, which
defines Godhood. This of course is rarely accepted by modern
philosophy or science (or even religion) but I think it defines the ultimate or highest
determined meaning of life, biology and evolution. This theological materialism gives a vital religious foundation to the meaning of
life.
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