I don't know how people assume that evolution is dependent on random chance, when in fact it's just the opposite. Look at the stones at the bottom of a stream. Do you think god made them round and smooth and put them there? If not, then does it follow that the round, smooth stones got there randomly? It's the same with evolution. There's a reason that we're here. We're not an accident, but nor does that mean that we were necessarily created by some outside force.

And I believe life can have meaning in and of itself, without fear of being Judged by a wrathful god.

This judgement has always perplexed me, since if god is omnipresent and omnipotent and our creator, he must know each of us inside and out, our pasts, our present and our futures. If he created some of our characters as such that we would so doubt and question and reject belief in a deistic god, why would he then judge us? For if he is our creator and breathed life into us, and shaped our anatomy and our incredibly complex minds with all the nuances of personality and psychology, aren't we merely an extention of god ourselves? Why would a perfect god need to judge itself?

I don't claim to be perfect myself, but I do believe strongly in exercising tolerance and respect for other people. One doesn't need to believe in god to believe that they should treat people the way they want to be treated.