Living on this tiny planet just to exist and then die takes a
much bigger leap of faith to accept than to accept we have been created
Well I disagree that accepting reality, and not believing in things that lack anything substantive to suggest they are true is in any way a "leap of faith", but this point is, in itself, the absolute epitome of the pomposity and self-importance of humanity.
Of all the billions of solar systems in the universe, it's an inevitability, just through sheer scale alone, that some of them would provide the opportunity for life to emerge. Just because we are the lucky species than not only benefitted from being in this scenario, but we also hit the evolutionary jackpot and became the most advanced and adaptable in our own solar system, does not mandate that we must have been "created".
It's breathtakingly arrogant to suggest that we are somehow special or chosen. The reality is that sheer happenstance, biological, and chemical accident led to the advent of life in our solar system, and while I concede that any species fortunate enough to become predominant and sentient would wonder at it's own existence, that's all it is, a happy coincidence.
It had to happen to "someone", somewhere, given the numbers involved. It's also entirely possible that we are not the only sentient lifeform in the universe, and if there are other sentient beings out there, they are also amazed at their own existence. None of this requires a creator. Life will naturally be adapted to the conditions it finds itself in, just as different species adapt to different habitats here on Earth itself. Our Solar System provides the 'perfect' environment for human beings, but it self-evidently provides the perfect environment for countless other earth species, a few of which really aren't all that different to ourselves, so again, it's ridiculously pompous, self-important, and arrogant to declare ourselves some sort of special importance as a species when there is nothing to suggest we are any such thing.
The universe can still be, and absolutely is a wonderous thing, even with entirely natural explanations that don't require fanciful notions like gods and creators. All you do by introducing those is add a whole load of further questions which didn't previously exist.