Now, let me try to show why life is the "goal" AND the "result".
if LIFE is as you state above the what we can clearly see is that we have a very very poor designer ..
firstly our sun has , in galatic time scales .. a very very short life span .. and for much of that span is very unfriendly to LIFE as we know it ..
not to mention the hazards from near by stars .....
next the earth .. again for much of its time is totally hostile to LIFE , i mean why did it start with such a nasty collection atmoshperic gases... why has it allowed large rocks from space to cause such disruptuion ...
why has its cilmate changed so much making LIFE impossible in vast areas ...
and how long will this earth last ?
LIFE is around dispite everything else , not because of it ..
Even us limited humnas can see how hostile a place this is to LIFE ..
and we could come up with far better designs for enviroment as well as the living creatures ....
If we are a result of a design a bare 1 out of 10 would be a fair score ......