Richard Dawkings says ....

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This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.


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Hmm, how can a man of Dawkins' undoubted intelligence apply a word like "purpose" to inanimate things?

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I think you missed his point. He says LACKING all purpose, ie purpose is NOT an attribute that can be ascribed to inanimate things