Every cell, virus, plant, or animal mutation or characteristic is explained by Natural Selection.
It’s almost like there is some motivation for it to make sure life exists and survives. But why do anything at all? If there is a God then it makes sense that it was put in place for life to exist but if there is no God then why don’t we just have a universe of non-living matter?
Natural Selection is a process. It has no intention or intended function.
You give more meaning to life than natural selection or physics does. Arguing from that perspective is flawed. You’re equating and relating the wrong things.
We don’t have a universe of non-living matter because life is an inherent necessary consequence of the physical properties and processes of our universe.