So your comment misses two important points I'm trying to convey: 1) "It's a choice everyone makes for themselves." You cannot make a choice (According to Ma

So your comment misses two important points I'm trying to convey: 1) "It's a choice everyone makes for themselves." You cannot make a choice (According to Materialist Physics) You are nothing but random noise. A random equation cannot 'make' choices, it cannot 'make' anything there is nothing being 'made'. There is no such thing as 'intelligence' in random noise. So take a moment to grasp that for a second, because it reveals something about the first part of your statement: 2) "There is obviously no scientific basis in valuing life." What you mean to say is maybe there is no 'Materialist Scientific Basis' for valuing life. Because according to physics, why should we? But again from (1) there is no such thing as 'value' or 'emotion' or even 'choice' in random noise - you can see they hypocrisy of the statement. You're caught in a 'Chinese Finger Trap' of Scientific Materialism. You cannot on one hand talk about 'choice' 'values' because physics says those would be 'emotional' choices, when at the same time, materialist physics also tells us that there is no choice, emotion, intelligence, consciousness to begin with. Physics is telling us that you and I are just rocks rolling down a hill. We hit a bump, we go one way or another. That's it. No choice, no intelligence, no science, no discoveries, nothing is 'evolving' - just pure random noise like the fuzzy screen on the old TV sets. Remember that physics has not proven that the universe exists according to a certain set of rules. Physics is postulating that. We assume the Universe can be described as a set of equations, so we go about trying to describe things using equations. Because these equations have been very objectively helpful to us over the last few hundred years, and using them we can get rid of a bunch of fairy tales and ridiculous ideas ... we've come to believe that Physics itself is the search for truth. But it's not - Physics is only the search for material truth within the constraints that it's set for itself. By definition, physics may not be able to help us understand the meaning of life because they've resigned themselves to studying the lego blocks of life. Now consider an alternative: the perspective of 'the observer' and that Science is merely a tool for understanding the Universe around is - that Science is not a 'Truth' but a 'Tool'. That 'life' is the basis of our existence, and that it expresses itself via materialism, but is not entirely constructed of that materialism. The only reason we take any real interest in Materialist Science, ironically, is because of our creative impulses. Obviously - it's abstract, and not prone to equations, and can easily devolve into 'magical thinking' but that doesn't invalidate the ultimate premise of non-materialist thinking. Below the 'tree trunk' of Physics is 'Metaphysics' and it's worth remember that physics at any given time is only one way of interpreting the universe.