Sartre surely saw and said this, existentially.
I don't see why there is such an opposition to a random, probabalistic universe. Clearly, physics works that way, and evolution as well. Chance, working on matter through physical law in space and time, inevitably produces the variations which lead to complexity, given enough time. That's all you need to make the universe work, and evolve.
The purpose we so desperately seek is provided by us. It only has meaning for us. Consciousness is the engine that defines purpose. It's staring us in the face and we refuse to see it. We provide the purpose to the cosmos, and the meaning. Everything else is just infrastructure.