Best Theistic Arguments

[sdelsolray]

My undergraduate degree is in classical guitar performance, so I was also a music major.

I strongly suspect you are biasing your thinking with concepts of purpose, specific goals and special reference.  Note the several references to "we" and "us" bolded above in your post.  If you assume a certain end result of biological evolution, as if the purpose of it was to drive exclusively to "us", as if "we" were the sole goal of evolution and/or if you believe you are special, then you do not understand the biological theory of evolution, at least not completely.

Oh nice! I love the guitar. All kinds. It has such a great sound. Can't play it for the life of me though lol. My principal instrument was piano and organ was my secondary. I majored in composition.
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I simply do not have much of a knack at composing music, despite much effort.  I certainly relish good music composition adequately performed and I've often been astonished and amazed at the talent and results of many composers and arrangers.

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I won't deny that there could be biases in my thinking. To be biased is to be human, after all. But the point I stress is, regardless of interpreting meaning into it, we are, as a matter of fact, here. There were processes that had to take place for the current state of things to exist. And the prospects of what had to take place, even within biology and natural selection, to get from point A to point B, are astonishing.

Yes, cognitive and emotional biases are prevalent in humans.  I believe it is important to learn how to identify their presence and to take appropriate action to mitigate, diminish or outright eliminate them once detected.

Yes, we are here.  As to historical processes which "needed" to occur to reach the present state of existence in detail, I have been studying some recent research (isolated to biological evolution) which plausibly suggests that there may be many paths to the same evolutionary result, akin to the idea that there may be several ways to drive a car or walk to a particular store.  So, I'm not sure all prior events had to occur as they did in order to arrive as things are now.  I would agree, however, that many were very likely necessary precursor events.

Again, you seem to have a preconceived belief that the emergence of current existence was a preconceived goal.  I can only suggest that you experiment by removing that "axiom" from your thinking and see where that leads you.

Yes, astonishing, along with remarkable, wondrous, inspiring and many other similar adjectives, can be used to describe our contemplation of reality.  Nevertheless, use of such words have little, if anything, to do with probability of the emergence of current reality.