Im just gonna say NO! but maybe

BRAVO, BRAVO

so much death, destruction, and sorrow.

...all because of our inability to say three words:

I don't know

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I never noticed how white Neil deGrasse Tyson's hands are.

Ok,
I have been pondering this same question for the last two years; mainly reading about the earliest recorded events of humanity and focusing on the science that led to where we are today; Obviously, anything earlier than Planck Time cannot be resolved scientifically, so there's a leap of faith there just like with religion.
One of the major discoveries I stumbled into is that religion exploded around the same time human cuneiform (writing) was invented. The oldest and most prolonging religion from panbabylonism is Mesopotanian Religion which extended from 4200 B.C. to 600 A.D. Religion's first and foremost goal was self-governance; in other words, since the lawmakers couldn't watch you all the time, they figured out a way to make a policeman within you, they called him God. He knows if you've been good or bad, so be good for goodness sake!
On the topic of the universe itself, logic dictates that as humans, our limbs and torso are mostly there to supply the brain with energy; extrapolating this a few billions years (and assuming we can survive that long), we could end up with no limbs at all. There is also the strong craving for putting more and more information in smaller and smaller space; Again, extreme extrapolation would dictate that over infinite time, the universe would be filled with smaller replicas of itself where the golden ratio of sufficient universal information vs space volume proliferated across time-space might indeed bring the universe online. The ultimate no-reservations goal of the universe would be for it to become self-aware...

All I have said here is in direct contradiction with information loss from black holes, and the big freeze, but I like to think this way as a Gedankenexperiment. I don't necessarily believe what I say, and I'd like to hear other sifter's thoughts about what they think is the role of the universe.

"I don't know" doesn't get you social control and a steady flow of income on the "be saved" platform.

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No problem. This happens sometimes.

Like his answer: " I'm not sure." As to the rest, others see the fact that we are here as an indication of a Higher Power. They say that probabilities mitigate against our existence in such astronomical numbers that this 'randomness' Tyson refers to speaks against life coming into being without purposeful input.

Bracingly, I would try to explain to someone putting forth that line of reasoning that introducing an additional unknown mechanism of a far greater, more astronomically high improbability and complexity to explain the original and (by comparison) far simpler, more probable thing runs counter-intuitive to the very measure of expectation they invoked to dismiss it in the first place.

No need to brace yourself, my good person. I totally understand that line of reasoning. Carry on!

You reference what "others" think. Do you think this is a reasonable line of argument? If you do, you should own it and present it as your position. We can't have a discussion with people who aren't here. If you already know the sound counterargument, you should address that too.