Explaining the fact that we exist

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The problem here is seeing us as some sort of goal. We are what happened. Any particular outcome at this stage in time would have been exceedingly unlikely. Whatever life forms may have occured would be looking back and wondering the same thing, if they were capable of such thought.

As an example, I can roll a die 1000 times and note the outcomes. What are the chances I end up with all those particular numbers, in that order? (1/6)^1000! That is so tiny! Yet I did. How is that possible? It's so unlikely, there must have been a god involved.

No. Whatever has happened, has happened. Working out how unlikely it was doesn't tell you anything more about how it came about. If we didn't happen, something else would. We're not the goal of evolution, local or cosmic. We're what happened to come out of it, at this point in time.