“How did we get here if not.”
The question itself is very confusing and misleading.
You should be asking how we became conscious or how any beings might become conscious.
“Consciousness” is what matters, whether here or elsewhere.
Evolution tells us nothing about consciousness—that is why it is a red herring.
Wouldn’t we have to get here in the first place, with the all the physical attributes that we have, to become ‘conscious’?
You require more reading on a few things you have a lot to learn.