Does the Universe Have a Purpose?
No.
That’s my point of view, the same camp as Peter William Atkins and Christian de Duve.
Christian de Duve made my day 
There should be a lot of rewriting in Jean Staune’s recent book, where quoting de Duve is used to support a purposeful universe. It will be funny to compare the english version to come, via the JTF editions.
The question made me think about Terry Pratchett’s “Small Gods“. More you believe, more they are consistent.
Unfortunately this wasn’t a “Yes-No” pool and the total number of people solicited to answer the question isn’t discussed. I wonder how many people just dropped the JTF’s Big Question at the nearest trash-bin.
[...] le cinquième paragraphe, qui part de la dernière production de Jean Staune, je me contenterait de vous proposer la lecture des propos de Christian de Duve directement. Toujours mieux d’aller à la source [...]