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It's not easy to reply to this very interesting comment ... Several thoughts (thoughts? Yes, I know I am only able to think, because the ability of thinking has turned out of being useful to transfer our genes into the next generation) are arising:
Is love, is intelligence, are all our skills and traits less precious, less valuable, less fascinating, because they are 'only' the product of evolution, because they could 'only' develop (and continue to exist) as they increased the probability of certain combinations of genes (to be exact: alleles of genes) to survive in the competition with other allele combinations? Aren't the DNA and our genes unbelievable complex and fascinating as well (should we actually be proud of being "vehicles" of such a complex thing like genes)? :-)
Would be the abilities to love, to think logical, to be creative ... greater if they had been given to us by 'God' (or whoever), if they existed as pure self purpose without any concrete function?
If I was 'God', I think I actually had created universe with the aim to initiate evolution with the purpose to fabricate a vast number of wonderful organisms automatically, without the necessity of working myself. ;-)
This is not an answer if things are scary as they are or not, but just some random thoughts which spontaneously came into my mind ... Thanks for commenting!
this is a beautiful explanation. Having a creator in play even for me a scientist makes all the things more plausible. And we realy shouldnt underestimate phantasy, since we hold (by this long process of anticipating design/evolution) an exhaustive and explaining map/ a model in us which is only based beliefes and never on knowledge. So thanks for your honest answer!
In case you are interested here are some more thoughts concerning the 'God-topic'. :)