Who or what created the universe

[Ahriman]

it can,  the frame work facilitate forecast what is coming,  facilitates understanding of how to maximize the chances of making it through. 

survival instinct cause me to want my progeny to make it through

But you don't know what's coming, you just think you know because someone told you all that stuff was going to happen. That information didn't just pop into your head, no matter how rational you think yourself to be.