I see your problem here, Alan, which involves your repeated and spurious use of the word 'meant'.
That's the narcissism and egotism inherent in theism, though, isn't it. The universe was meant to be, typically as somewhere - a stage, an arena - where little old me was meant to be.
There's a fellow called Jonathan Black who writes very long and highly entertaining books full of extremely interesting twaddle for the most part, but he does make one interesting point near the beginning of one of his books: namely, that the essential and fundamental difference between a religious mindset or worldview and what we might call a scientific worldview is in the relationship between matter and mind. The religious view says that mind comes first, typically in the form of an immaterial mind in the form of your bog-standard supernatural theistic deity, which creates a universe of matter and all in it second. On the other hand, the scientific view says that matter comes first - a universe has to exist for there to be minds
in - and matter, when it becomes sufficiently complex in its arrangement, gives rise to mind. (As the old saying has it, mind is what the brain does).
As far as I can see all the evidence supports the latter point of view. I don't know of any evidence that supports the first.
