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Letter: All for me

Published 31 October 2007

From Jan Dow

I can’t understand all those naive professors havering over whether the universe has a purpose when it’s all so obvious.

The sole goal and culmination of the big bang, inflation, stellar formation and everything else is the creation of a life-support system for me – the apogee and final purpose of creation and evolution. When I die it will all cease to exist.

It can be no coincidence that wherever I stand is astride the centre of the surface of the world.

Nor can it be mere happenstance that the whole of the visible universe is centred exactly between my eyeballs.

Exeter, UK

Issue no. 2628 published 3 November 2007

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