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You assume that we are the only life in the universe. This is a flawed assumption. We merely do not know of any other life, that does not mean it does not exist.
There are likely many, many other planets with similar conditions to that of early earth, and could support life in the form that we know it. There is an entire field of science concerned with the origins of life, and how it could arise spontaneously. So far, we know that molecules form spontaneously, and we know that monomers that make up proteins can form spontaneously given the right molecules and an energy source. See the Miller-Urey experiment. Right now the study is on how these monomers could come together to form proteins, and then life. All evidence found so far shows that it is very possible for life to arise spontaneously given the right circumstances.
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You have said basically everything but I think I have a little more to add...
We may think that we are special because we are alive and if the Earth was slightly closer to the sun it would be too hot to support water, but the only way that we are able to think about how lucky we are is if all of those criteria were already filled. That means that the arguement about the luck of the life on Earth has no real imperical value because the senario of life can't be compared with a senario of no life.
We may question if there is a god if we were born into a place that couldn't support life, because that would be any normal place in space, but than we wouldn't be able to exist and think about it.
and just to say...
I respect when people choose to have a religion but it doesn't really hold up to an arguement that doesn't involve facts that are from religion, because that is being disputed. You can't evidence if the evidence is the topic that is being discussed.