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Does the Universe Have a Purpose? feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you have ever considered a wider purpose for your existence, wonder no more. The John Templeton Foundation has taken it upon itself to ask big questions like that to leading American scholars and scientists.

Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium, and ‘popularizer’ of science has had his answer animated. His answer to the big question is: Not sure

He figures that the more we learn about the universe, the more random it seems and in a human life, good events are as likely to happen as really bad destructive ones. It is also very unlikely that the purpose of the universe is to create life on Earth since 99.9% of all organisms that have lived here have been wiped out by harsh living conditions. He goes on to dismiss that the purpose might be to create human life. In his own words “universe has been embarrassingly inefficient about it” since we have existed for only 0.00001% of the Earth’s lifetime.