Carey! Great to see that you’re out and about! Hope all is well with you.

You say that life is more interesting than physics—I think I understand what you mean, and may even sort of agree. However, ultimately, physics underlies the universe and biology/life.

You ask why it matters whether God made the universe in which evolution is happening? Perhaps, in the end, it doesn’t matter. There does seem to be an enormous amount of pointless suffering—tsunamis, wars, slaughter, mental torment, disease, etc.—so maybe the creator is as indifferent as is the atheist’s accidental universe. On the other hand, once one is convinced of first cause, it somehow becomes impossible to believe in a totally indifferent creator, and one is then more inclined to believe in things like truth, beauty, and goodness—irrational beliefs if one lives in a meaningless accidental universe (unless one is schizophrenic).