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This is a question I've grappled with myself for a long time. Evolutionary theory certainly appeals to me rationally, and I accept that it is one of the mechanisms that facilitated the emergence of one species from another, culminating in H. sapiens. At the same time, when I consider how all the individual parts of the universe - and particularly earth's biosphere - interact to form a highly complex, intricate, self-sustaining, and self-modifying system, I can't help concluding that the entire process from big bang to the ascendency of Man has more likely been intentionally driven rather than the result of random chance.
Scientists (i.e., adherents to the religion of scientism, which includes nearly everyone reading this) are fond of dismissing the notion of a supreme being by patly stating that there is no scientific evidence for the existence of such a being. It never occurs to them to look at the other side of that coin: that there is no proof that such a being does not exist either. I don't think that evolution and the existence of an intelligent creative force are mutually exclusive. One need only look at the human genome to see that it is not only very elegantly coded but that it is coded in the only possible way it could've been in order to function correctly. (See Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas) It just doesn't strike me as probable that 15 billion years of random events brought it about.
In short, life is the result of evolution directed by an intelligent agent of unknown properties.
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