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Question: Why do people search for the origin of life or even death!?
Why do people torture themselves mentally to find the origin of life instead of trying to live the life they have!? WE WILL NEVER KNOW!. The same thing goes out for wanting to know what happens when we die!. WE WILL NEVER KNOW until we die!. Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Because we are curious, we have an inquisitive mind!. It's not a bad thing to ask, to be curious!. We search for a meaning, a purpose!. Religions offer simplistic models, many are satisfied and happy with the answers that religions offer!. Others are not!. Science searches too, it tries to answer who we are, where we come from, is there life elsewhere, etc!. It is because we don't have the answers that we should continue in our searches to find out the answers to these types of questions!.
I believe only with Science we'll be able to understand better!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

that's bullcrap!. what do you mean we will never know!. we're pretty close to knowing already!. in fact, we do know as a fact that life can form from inorganic molecules under certain conditions!. this has already been proved in the lab!. we are still trying to figure out the exact conditions and how it formed billions of years ago here on Earth!.

but to say we will NEVER know!. that's crazy!. imagine if we said that for everything else that has already been discovered through science!. you'd be up in a tree with a stone in your hand, instead of at your computer!.

and to say "he same thing goes out for wanting to know what happens when we die!. WE WILL NEVER KNOW until we die" makes no sense!. for to quote Epicurus, "Therefore that most frightful of evils, death, is nothing to us, seeing that when we exist death is not present, and when death is present we do not exist!. Thus it is nothing to either the living or the dead, seeing that the former do not have it and the latter no longer exist!."

in other words!. with death comes lack of a "we" or "us" so that kind of language is nonsense!. if there is personal identity still, then we shouldn't have died!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Because the search for knowledge never stops!. One hundred years ago no one knew about DNA!. You just can't say no one will never know!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You just answered your own question!.Www@QuestionHome@Com