Either way, thanks for the positive message.
[1] http://sci.waikato.ac.nz/evolution/AnimalEvolution.shtml
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary...
True.
> Billions of years of nothing but mindless senseless suffering and death in the natural world
False ("nothing but" signals either a silly rhetorical flourish, or profound ignorance of the "natural world", which contains joys and sorrows in vast and complex patterns resisting such narrow simplification).
> the fact we can try at all is possibly the most special thing that has ever happened in the entire universe
Daft if you ignore "possibly" - we know almost nothing even of other regions of our own galaxy, let alone 'the entire universe'. Trivially true if you admit "possibly".
All this aside, however amazing humanity undoubtedly is, it is failing, perhaps inevitably, at the signal task of our age, which is to maintain civilisation without destroying our home. There is no sign thus far that this can or will improve.