Felix, Bernardo, Gustavo, and Eugenio asked:

Even though we haven't accomplished our goal of discovering if there exists life in other planets, all of
us have the same doubt.

If we are alone or not on the universe, there is something or someone that put us here, what is that
and why does he, she or it put us here and for what purpose?

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Let's take the question, "for what purpose are we here?" and change it very subtly to, "what is my
purpose in life?" Most people, I suspect, can begin to answer this question without too much difficulty.
My purpose in life might be to care for my family, give my son a good education, pursue my chosen
career and so on. When I have given as complete an answer as possible along these lines, is there
something yet remaining that I have not begun to address? If there is a creator who has put us here,
does it follow that this creator has a purpose for us which we must discover and pursue? And does it
follow that such a purpose would be something which we would recognise as being somehow
"higher" or worthier or more spiritual than the particular purposes we set for ourselves?

Suppose we were able to meet the creator and ask what is the purpose for which we were put here.
Imagine the following possible answers from the creator:

"I put you here to stop the beetles from overrunning the earth."

"I put you here to spend your lives trying to find me and worship me."

"I put you here to decide for yourselves what your own purposes would be."

"I didn't put you here for any particular purpose except that I enjoy creating things."

We could generate a long list of such possible answers and some would be more plausible than
others but are any of them actually impossible? And now the question arises, how would we decide
which possible purpose was really what the creator had determined? Could this be decided by
philosophising about it or would we be dependent upon direct revelation from the creator? If it is
logically possible for a creator have any one of a number of purposes for the creation, then unless we
are privy to the thinking of the creator we will only ever be able to say what we think the range of
possibilities might be.

Robert Crompton