Gimli has posed an interesting -if peripheral- question, which is actually better answered by evolution and random mutation.
According to evolution theory, (one, at least) it is reasonable to assume -or guess- that life began in a puddle (or around a volcanic vent, but that's another story). It is easy to imagine a number of near or partial extinctions occurring in the puddle until one enterprising bug worked out how to survive outside the puddle.
And so the seas were populated. More mass extinctions, yadda yadda, enterprising critter crawls out of the ocean... yadda yadda, mass extinctions, life learns to fly, yadda yadda.
Another pattern.
So now we are all in one big box, which as Ponde points out is still a rather precarious position, and low and behold, a species arises which is capable of getting off the planet.
Not really any more amazing than the first amphibian or the first flying whatever, to my mind.
But totally peripheral to the question as I said.
As reasoning beings, we do things for reasons. They may not be good reasons, but...
My question remains: What possible reason could a God have, for creating life?

"What possible reason could a God have, for creating life?..."

Well man did invent the T.V.....:) The world is just one of gods Aust-star channels he flicks to from time to time. He's on channel 42 at the moment......hes watching the planet of the apes:)

Grim...that post made me near wet myself, well done:)

Well here's something else the ponder over.....

What if God is an alien?, then what?

BLUE

Deep Blue... by 'alien' do you mean....(dare I write it?) ... Muslim?

Gosh, wouldn't that put a spanner in Julia Gillard's Baptist values system she is so proud of?

Or do you mean to imply that god is currently thought of as 'human' but might be Mork (or Mindy)?

That is deep fodder for intellectual thought and we need runner to assist us here, or AGIR, or 'Sells'.

Calling all fundies, rush to the Intellectual Deck as soon as you can please.

God, every one of them is the sum of humanity's fears and promises.
Hope and need to understand the wounder of life and explain death while taking the fear out of it.
All these things and more from our cave days to now loyalty to a God or his her priests is rewarded, not bending to their will punished.
We know, those of us willing to look, the last 150 years has seen a decline in the God of the western world, and rise of others.
learn not discriminate in the name of any God, as we see the self assurance seen here in one Gods name, we will confront our reality, it is better to live by the words men invented in the name of Gods.
We hopefully will continue to distance our selves from the view God is our master.
Heaven just ours, would be very crowded, and all those on their knees is not my idea of such, what human would bring us tour knees in worship?
If our task do so in an after life I am better for refusing.

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Deep Blue... by 'alien' do you mean....(dare I write it?) ... Muslim? Since I see and listen to only facts, religion and all that's man made does not come under that mind categorizations which only primitives still holds dear.

Muslim's/Christians are bothersome........two pea's in different pods, but the same....No time for either.

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Could God, after the creation of earth and all the stuff on it, have decided to start creating other inhabited worlds here and there. Some very religious types state that there are no ETs because the bible makes no direct reference to them, however the bible (especially the old) is a pretty dated book, and it would be rather difficult to believe God coming to earth to add his latest amendments and accomplishments 400 light years away which would be of little consequence to us to begin with.

Whats your theory on what God did on the 8th day. We look through the hubble and see nearly infinate amounts of galaxys, all housing stars, many stars of which have planets...could the biblical God be keeping busy making world after world and simply not bothering to write new passages every few years/days/hours whenever he does something new, or is God pretty much limited to this one world and no other?

BLUE

Deep Blue

This is THE answer to the whole question:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9bMi4s_yOE