An article on Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos which discusses the respectable scientific argument for a purposeful universe without an actual purpose. It’s called “Where Thomas Nagel went Wrong which gives credit to the intelligent design people to have seen the flaws in the Darwinian story without having gone to a religious explanation. But you then end up with people really only choosing whether there is an outside will that determines our existence or it is a not quite foreordained outcome because of the blind nature of the universe unfolding as it must.