If human life evolved without any input from a higher being, then why does human life, or any life, have value?

Nothing has objective value, something having value is a subjective opinion, and I guess that most people consider humans to have value.

From evolution we have evolved a will to live, and therefor it evolutionarily makes sense for someone, to at least, consider their own life to matter. Since essentially everyone feels that way, it makes sense that we would make a social contract which everyone matters, and no one will kill/attack/harm you as long as you return the same favor, which would be a fair deal since it ensures your own protection. And since staying in groups was good in our evolution, it makes since to value those you are with, as if they continue to live, they can continue to help you and your group.

Also, we have evolved empathy, so we can feel for others, so us valuing others could have something to do with that.

I accept that there is no objective, universal reason or scientific law that says that humans have value, but from a humans perspective, I think that it makes sense to hold such an opinion.

Even if a God did exist, which I don't believe, I don't see how that would make morality, or the value of humans into something objective. I don't see how God's opinions would be anything else than that, opinions.

Note: I'm not a biologist, so something I said about human evolution might be inaccurate, but I think that what I said is essentially correct.

If human life evolved without any input from a higher being there would be no Soul, Spirit, intellect. or eternity thus no value.

It doesn't!

Not to God (John 17:9)!

Whoever believes it does, take your best shot because that's all you have (Hebrews 3:19)!

Your question is malformed. Your premise is that religion is the source of enlightenment when history has proven that religion has spread ignorance, bigotry and encouraged judgmental practices. Historic examples of slaughter justified by religion are innumerable AND CONTINUE TO THIS DAY.

Ask instead how 21st century civilization evolved to value ALL human life IN SPITE OF RELIGION and ignorance.

I am so sorry you have to believe in an imaginary sky daddy that evolved from a minor deity of war from a Judaeo pantheon simply to believe that your life has value. Atheists believe your life has value and are saddened you waste it on religious dogma.

I can't believe you really mean what Ithink you mean.

We (meaning humans) value life in general because we ARE life. In particular, we value human life because we ARE human life. I can't see how whether or not you believe a “higher being” was involved in our evolution would make any difference.

It's most likely that any creature that did not value it's own species (or at least act as if it did) would have become extinct millions of years ago. If you can imagine, for example, rats actively trying to kill each other (and there being many other creatures trying to kill them) then they would soon cease to exist.

This “desire for survival” is instinctive in species - that's why they have survived. As humans we rationalise this instinct: we “value” ourselves as a species; we say it is “morally wrong” to kill humans. As our lives have become more comfortable and we have become more knowledgeable we value life in general because we are now aware of the relationships and dependencies between different species of living things.

Like I say though, whether or not there is any “higher being” makes no difference at all.

Life has the value that we place on it.

We place relatively little value on the life of our food.

We place a great value on our own lives. Empathy and the Golden Rule leads to us placing value on the lives of other humans. Although this is fragile and can be removed easily - see the treatment of Japanese-Americans during WWII, the treatment of Jews by Nazi Germany, the current rise of white supremacy in the US and Europe.

But there is nothing to indicate that there is any external influence of how we value life and the lives of living things. Just us.

God may have brought human biological life into existence through a natural process of His design, however humans are not merely biological beings. Humans also have a spiritual nature and an immortal soul, which could not have come into existence in any way other than by a direct act of God.

I suppose human life has no value to an accelerating expanding universe. It might not have any value to a being who lives outside of the universe either. How does that affect the value that we place on each other?

Also, have you established the premise that god is the source of morality? No.

Would the poor Jews have gone extinct from amoebic dysentery and e. coil poisoning if God hadn’t showed them how to properly dispose of fecal matter? No.......

Life has value because we value life. Values are the products of our minds, not objective entities.

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

Life has intrinsic value because it is life. There is no need to create an imaginary Sky Daddy to give it value.

If that were true, it wouldn’t. Not only would we be accidents, but we would be no more important than any other life form. At that rate, we may as well be gnats or cock roaches. This life would be unimportant and pointless.

That being said, evolutionists disagree with that—they think human life has value even though nothing other than that specific Biblical teaching would ever give us “accidents” cause to think so.