Does the Universe Have a Purpose?

By Nancy Atkinson - November 28, 2012 at 12:02 AM UTC | Cosmology

An intersection of two of my favorite entities (

Minute Physics

and

Neil deGrasse Tyson

) now covers a topic that has been on my mind lately: does the Universe -- and therefore humanity -- have a purpose?

deGrasse Tyson was asked by the Templeton Foundation to answer this question and poses here that if there is a purpose, the cosmic environment has a strange way of showing it.

What do you think?

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