[POLL] The Purpose-Filled Existence.

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The options given are bogus.

you offer choices between levels of belief in something being 100 percent true, or being a hundred percent false.

There is no option for "on some levels its true, and on some levels its not".

You ask if we are 100 percent sure, or fifty percent, or five percent, or zero percent, sure that something is 100 percent true, or is a 100 percent false. But not whether we are a 100 percent sure that its fifty percent true,or etc..

You might be religious and believe that the Universe has a creator who created the earth for "the purpose" of humans worshipping him, but you may not be some kind of paranoid person who thinks that every coincidence in everyday life "isn't a coincidence because I don't believe in coincidences" (ie you might not take the fact that your grocery bill is the same as today's date to mean that god is telling you to bet on that number in the lottery). Such a person would believe that on some high level the Universe is teleological, but not on lower levels.

And I don't know what "free will" has to do with the question. Thats a whole nother can of worms. I see next to zero evidence of teleology in the universe, but I also see next to zero evidence that human's have actual "free will". You imply that that is a contradiction. It certainly is not.

I voted most likely no. Mainly because I am not absolutely sure of anything. I like to leave the door open a little to possibilities.