Without God, the universe is without explanation, meaning or purpose. A universe without God translates to a universe without immortality.

It would mean life has become ultimately absurd. If each individual human being passes out of existence when he dies, what ultimate purpose can be placed on his life? If God did not exist, and man and the universe were mere accidents without any purpose, what distinguishes the human being from any other animal? Furthermore, without God, there is no measurable standard of right and wrong actions, and the line dividing good and evil would be non-existent. Life, and the universe, without a God, has no explainable significance, value or purpose. The universe without God has no meaning. It can be said that an individuals life is important because it influenced others or perhaps affected the course of history, but this gives life a relative significance and not an overall ultimate significance. If an individuals life is important only relative to certain events, what is the ultimate significance behind any of these events in a Godless universe? If all of the events are meaningless, then what can be the ultimate significance of influencing any of them? Ultimately it makes no difference. Suppose the Big Bang had never occurred: what ultimate difference would it have made? If there is no God, and the universe is doomed to die anyway, it makes difference whether it ever existed or not. The same is true of the human race; mankind is a doomed race in a dying universe. Because the human race will eventually cease to exist, it makes no ultimate difference whether it ever did. If there is no God, the universe holds no value. Conscience would be non-existent, we would have no way to determine right and wrong actions. Moral values are either just expressions of personal taste, or else the result of socio-biological evolution. In a world without God, who is to say whose values are wrong and whose are right? Who is to judge that the values of an Adolf Hitler are inferior to those of a Nelson Mandela? The concept of morality loses all meaning in a universe without God. In a world without God, there can be no objective right and wrong, only our culturally and personally relative subjective judgments. But that means that it is impossible to condemn war, oppression, or crime as evil. Nor can one praise love, brotherhood, or equality as good. In a universe without a God, good and evil would not exist; there is only the bare, valueless existence. In a universe without God, there is no hope and no purpose. If all life ends in death, what was its ultimate goal? The universe would be pointless. As the ancient writer of Ecclesiastes put it, "For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same. As one dies so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath and there is no advantage for man over beast, for all is vanity. All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust. (Ecc 3:19-20). If life ends at the grave, then we have no ultimate purpose for living. But even if life did not end in death, without God life would still be without purpose. For man and the universe would merely be accidents, thrust into existence for no explainable reason. Without God, the entire universe would simply be a result of a cosmic accident. There would be no purpose at all for the existence of the human race, it would simply peter out, lost in the indifference of an oblivious and Godless universe. If God does not exist, then humans are simply a miscarriage of nature, thrust into a purposeless universe to live a purposeless life. So if God does not exist, that means that man and the universe exist to no purpose, and that they came to be for no purpose. If man is not instilled with purpose, he has no soul. Ultimately, without God, the universe is without explainable purpose, meaning and soul.
Ambica Golyala 12.2 2/03/2012