I think the probability of statistics of a billion galaxies with a billion stars each gives reasonable assurance that there are several Earthlike planets that are billions of years older than Earth. Whereupon conscious beings with billion year advanced technology control nature at levels well beyond Earthlings' limited use of space, ie., satellites, space probes, SOHO. It took conscious man on Earth 3,000 years to achieve that level of technology -- control of nature. In cosmic time, that's an eye blink compared to a billion years of advancing technology.
I think the odds of the exact conditions for life to evolve or be sustained in the Universe are so miniscule that the the big bang didn't cause our Universe purely by nature's chance. Rather, conscious being in a different universe set the initial conditions of the big bang.