Is there anything north of the north pole? Where does your lap go when you stand up? Some questions are malformed and don't have answers - I would count the question of "Is there a point to humanity?" among them. Sometimes we ask questions like "why does fire burn?" and answer it with, "well, at a certain temperature oxidizers react with chemicals to produce blah blah blah..." but that's not really an answer to why it's an answer to how. Some of these why questions are not possible to be answered.
If God is real, that doesn't mean humanity has a point. The Ultimate Being and maintainer of the universe may be more interested in the orbits of lifeless rocks and chemistry of stars given the fact that we don't see any other intelligent life out there in the universe. We may be an accidental side reaction in God's creation that It just doesn't care about given our puny lifespans and puny interests. It may also be that humanity has a point, but it's a point that we may consider evil (such as the Demiurge of gnostic Christianity).
If God is not real, then humanity may have no point. We just exist like everything else does and derive our own meaning. We may have a teleological point if God doesn't exist - in dialectical materialism it could be that the ultimate synthesis is that between Unconscious, Unthinking matter and Conscious, Purposeful matter (Mao's On Contradiction has a good bit at the end about dialectical materialism that expands to include Differentiation and Integration, Positive and Negative, etc.). We may have a purpose in lighting the dark of the universe and filling it with computronium and maximally produced consciousness.
Is there anything north of the north pole? Where does your lap go when you stand up? Some questions are malformed and don't have answers - I would count the question of "Is there a point to humanity?" among them. Sometimes we ask questions like "why does fire burn?" and answer it with, "well, at a certain temperature oxidizers react with chemicals to produce blah blah blah..." but that's not really an answer to why it's an answer to how. Some of these why questions are not possible to be answered.
If God is real, that doesn't mean humanity has a point. The Ultimate Being and maintainer of the universe may be more interested in the orbits of lifeless rocks and chemistry of stars given the fact that we don't see any other intelligent life out there in the universe. We may be an accidental side reaction in God's creation that It just doesn't care about given our puny lifespans and puny interests. It may also be that humanity has a point, but it's a point that we may consider evil (such as the Demiurge of gnostic Christianity).
If God is not real, then humanity may have no point. We just exist like everything else does and derive our own meaning. We may have a teleological point if God doesn't exist - in dialectical materialism it could be that the ultimate synthesis is that between Unconscious, Unthinking matter and Conscious, Purposeful matter (Mao's On Contradiction has a good bit at the end about dialectical materialism that expands to include Differentiation and Integration, Positive and Negative, etc.). We may have a purpose in lighting the dark of the universe and filling it with computronium and maximally produced consciousness.