The distances between the stars are just too vast for us to make it without one of these two things.
Being a religious person, I find it hard to believe that God would create us in a universe where our survival was not possible.
Do you mean "survival" in our physical form? How long should our "survival" last to make it easier for you to believe that God would create us that way? Most religions believe that God created us to live for only a limited time in our physical form.
or that our planet is the only one out of billions that is capable of supporting human life