Reply #417: That's essentially a "god of the gaps" argument.

[Silent3]

I already made this point in another post. The fact that we don't know everything about how energy and chemistry turn into life, that we haven't yet managed to create life from scratch, is not at all a good reason to invoke some separate other force or entity to explain the parts that are unknown. That's like saying there has to be a thunder god that makes the sound of thunder because you haven't yet figured out how electrical discharges in air create that sound.

The rest of what you wrote about "life itself is evidence of a goal" is merely repeating a mantra and hoping that your sincere belief (and maybe clicking your heels together for good measure) is going to make it true. You haven't substantiated that supposed reasoning one bit, no matter how much you seem to believe it to be self-evidently true.

As for the cruelty bit... well, I don't believe in any force of will that exists to make life happen anyway, so my trying to characterize how cruel such a will would seem to me is awfully hypothetical anyway. If you wish to excuse away the methods your imaginary force of will employs to achieve its goals, knock yourself out.