• Question: 8 why are we born

    Asked by anon-186958 to Stewart, Miriam, Marton, Laura, Kathryn, David on 6 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Miriam Hogg

      Miriam Hogg answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      I think it depends on how you look at it.

      Scientifically we’re born because all animals have the urge to reproduce and pass on their genes. If you look at animals, like birds for example, their life revolves around surviving and passing on their DNA. But humans don’t just do that. We have children but we also create things and explore.

      If you look at different cultures and religions they normally think there’s a reason we are born. Some people believe that we have a destiny, something that we were born to do. Others think we were born to find a reason to live or to enjoy ourselves. Some think we were born to look after the world and animals living on it.

      I personally think each person is born because we have the need to have children. But once we are born we can do whatever we like with our lives, find something that makes us happy and enjoy it!

      Great question! although it was very hard to answer

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      Marton Olbei answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      Wow, this is a great question!

      In a strange way we don’t really get a say in it – whether we are born or not is our parent’s decision.
      Once we are conceived (and everything goes well) we start to grow in our mother’s womb and the whole beautiful process just goes on and on until we grow up, and in the end we eventually pass away.

      We are born because most life wants to replicate, and humans are no exception. What we do after we’re born is (mostly) up to us.

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      Stewart Martin-Haugh answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      Let me expand the question: why is there life on Earth? it seems to depend on a few different things.

      1)Biology: Earth is a good temperature for life, has the right kinds of chemicals to do life things (maybe you can tell I’m not a biologist!).

      2)Physics: If the force that binds atoms together was a bit weaker, we wouldn’t be able to have chemistry at all, so we wouldn’t exist.

      Some people believe there are lots of different universes, each with slightly different laws of physics. In that case, we exist because we’re in a universe that has the right conditions for life, and particularly human life.

      Or it could just be a coincidence. If we didn’t exist, we wouldn’t know!

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