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Pro[pH]et said:I believe in God, and that he created everything with a purpose. If we are here by complete chance then there is nothing to live for.
These statements don't follow from each other. It's like saying "If Brad Pitt doesn't fall in love with me, then there is nothing to live for!"
And regardless, plenty of scientists believe that God exists, and God has purposes for us, without believing that God had to micromanage all existence, or mind control your parents to meet so they would have you.
When we die, it's over, nothing that happens here on earth will matter. There are no rules, there is no higher power. In the end we don't answer to anyone. There is nothing bigger than man. That leaves us with every man for himself. Now that is a scarry world to live in!
Whether or not that is true...
a) has nothing to do with evolution is true or not
b) has nothing to do with whether IT is true or not
God created everything with a purpose. To say He used evolution to create the world insinuates he created this place then walked away for billions of years before the reason he created this place (man) showed up.
Perhaps that is how God allowed there to be free will in the universe: by NOT micromanaging every aspect of your existence, but rather by setting up the laws of nature so that intelligent soulful beings could be expected to come to exist one day, and he would be able to reveal himself to them and commune with them without having to determine their existence.