Evolution, per se, says that our existence is indeed a freak chance in an indifferent cosmos. What it doesn’t tell us — because we don’t yet know enough about the origin of life here, let alone anywhere else — is whether life is common in the Universe, and if so, whether intelligence is a common result of evolution Actually, this is wrong. Evolution has nothing to say about the origin of life; it is a process that occurs on species already in existence. Neither does evolution need an "indifferent" cosmos nor "freak chance:" it merely needs variation, through some means, and an environment in which natural selection can work.