You know what fascinates me, is how people seem to smack into a comprehension barrier the minute the come across a theory they deem "depressing".
Yet we accept depressing realities all throughout our life. We are going to die, the sun will expand and consume the earth, the universe will collapse in on itself, and so on. It's not a particularly happy place, our plane of existance. You just need to, you know, get the fuck over it.
There is a fairly great possibility that the creation of life here was just a freak thing, something that happened simply because the universe is such a large playing field within which things can happen, that the chances of life being created in one place at some time or another were high enough that it did happen. There is no way of telling how long it took the universe to create life, or how life itself was created. Current theories suggest that the creation of life is something so complicated, that the chances of it happening somewhere automatically (without devine/intelligent intervention) is one in quadrillions, and the chances of somewhere being suitable for life to be created on it's own is one in dectillions.
Maybe this means that the most likely explanation is that it happened as a result of devine intervention? Or maybe it means that it was just the luck of a vast and diverse universe? Maybe the experts have it wrong and it's not as complex as they think? The fact is, that all theories are as valid as the next until proven otherwise, which will most likely never happen. So you can't simply dismiss them on the basis of them being depressing.
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