Richard Dawkins says it this way—the way only science adequately can say it:
In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing by pitiless indifference. . . . DNA neither knows nor cares. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.
(Quoted from “God’s Utility Function,” Scientific American, 1995 November, pp. 62-67.)
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