You could just tie it all back to physics. Not much intelligent about gravity coalescing matter. But that had the side effect of releasing atomic energy in th

You could just tie it all back to physics. Not much intelligent about gravity coalescing matter. But that had the side effect of releasing atomic energy in the form of stars. The rubble attracted by these stars, orbited till it coalesced itself into planets. Those planets are bombarded by atomic energy by stars. Chemical reactions happened to break down this energy. Life, aka chemical reactions that are able to persist, started happening as a side effect. The more robust and more intelligent reactions were able to persist through fluctuations in environment. ie. ice ages, meteors, etc. We are nothing more than a persistent, stubborn reaction. A fungus on a hot rock. Maybe someday we can send some spores to another hot rock, and continue our fungal infestation. Provided that we don't consume all the resources here before that happens and fizzle out. In any case, I'm sure there is a fungus, perhaps a more evolved one, somewhere else in the universe that will.