what seem the logical conclusions of the materialist viewpoint and give uniformly negative answers: there is no reason, no purpose or meaning to my life, no objective morality, no afterlife, and no explanation of why anything exists. That viewpoint is called nihilism. But nihilists are in the minority. More often today, the sort of answer given is approximately that each person discovers, decides, or creates their own meaning for life. It is no accident that this sort of answer underwrites the pervasive