Atheism really doesn't explain creation any more logically than any other religion. At some point in the distant past the universe sprang into being. It sounds more plausible to me that it was created by a higher being than that it just kind of spontaneously occurred. Same goes for the beginings of life. Even a single celled organism is quite complex and exceedingly unlikely to occur on it's own.
No theory adequately explains our origins unless you put some irrational faith in it, because no matter how you slice it things don't just pop into existence, but that obviously did happen. Twice.
We all die, and it is up to us to decide who and what to love, but, as Dr.
Weinberg pointed out in a recent article in The New York Review of Books,
there is a certain nobility in that prospect.
"Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose
for humanity," he wrote, "one way that we can find a purpose is to study the
universe by the methods of science, without consoling ourselves with fairy
tales about its future, or about our own."