There isnt a single tiny piece of evidence that life or matter has any purpose at all, in fact, why would it have? All life that might have arose before the universe reaches its final state are bound for destruction, and no new lifeforms would be able to come into existance when the universe do fall asleep, or how to describe the state. Maywest posted the figure 1 to 10^256 chance of 'life' coming into existance also. The only problem with this argument is that if the void in which our universe sprung to life is infinite, one could say that if it happened at least once ( our universe ), it must have happened a infinite amount of times. This would mean that all events which dont have exactly zero chance of occuring will and has occured an infinite amount of times, which renders the argument "the chance is so small it could not have happened" invalid.