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There are two camps to be distinguished in the race for collecting as much humans to 'believe' their given explanations which hold their own truth in one or another way. Before you read on, I am not trying to set up a religious matter nor am I trying to pursuade you of anything.
The first camp is belief or religion. Core religion writings (such as the bible) tell of a (what the second camp calls) supernatural spawn. I think we all know the story about how a superbeing was responsible for us being here, creating this place in seven days and how general life came about. All sounds immensely logic to me, percepting it
Now, the second is, as you may have guessed, science or rationalism. "That which does not comply to the rules of nature cannot exist." It tries to see life (thus ourselves) as something that came about from outside our green and wet planet. Darwin's discoveries in the area of evolution led to a revolution in science. His theories were able to answer certain braintormenting questions our ancestors just couldn't solve. Evolution has now become a part of science, as much as the three basic needs for fire.
In my opinion, I think Darwin was right. Evolution indeed took and takes place in life. Through natural selection (mating with the individuals with the best genes) and the best mutations that alter our genes, do organisms gradually change and survive by adapting to the ever changing environment . Yet there are some things that must be added to this, in order to be understood in contrast with why we exist.
First of all, if the environment would stop changing, there would be no more evolution.
Second, evolution has no set goal or purpose. It take places utterly randomly and thus its goal can never, ever, ever, ever be known.
Third, evolution has no moral or ethic value, as goes for nature.
I think the question about why we exist is probably THE most human question. That one question itself represents our entire evolution of curiousity, consciousness and eagerness to learn which combined with an insane amount of random events and changes led us to that one moment when we began to develop a need to address meaning or purpose to something in order to understand it better.
I don't know the answer to this. And I will not spend time trying to solve it. There is so much we need to know about life before we can jump to any premature conclusion at all. Mankind does new discoveries about himself and the nature he is in, every day. For example, even recently, we have (mathematical) reasons to belief that life isn't exclusive to earth alone. There seems something in stardust (probably carbon) that creates life under the right conditions. This brings about a concept of possibility on galactic scale. Yet the size of the galaxy in incomprehensible to the human mind, but the rules in which it behaves are getting more and more clear to it. But still, we are far, lightyears far away from being sure.
We do know, however, that we humans are the only organisms on this planet that are able to question their own existence. The question to this point is a merely personal one. You are free to believe anything you desire, since we have no facts at hand. But suppose we had, would you believe it yourself? I saw another topic elsewhere in this domain about existence as well, so rest assured; it looks like people are working on it and thinking with you. And when (or if) we find the universal answer (if it even exists), I'm make sure you will be the first to know.
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives you the test first, and the lesson afterwards."
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