I’ve read Dawkins but not Dennis Noble. But take the same logic of evolution and apply it to planets. Millions or billions of planets with the potential to form life, surely one of them has the right conditions. I actually think many many of them have the right conditions but we are separated by time (?milenia apart) and space (millions of light years) so in effect we are alone. Having said all that I do believe in an underlying consciousness guiding us.