>What does not fit is a hunger for meaning. It is bizarre that we would have our survival instincts that were finally tuned by evolutionary advantage sabotaged by a desire for imaginary vague notions of some non-existent thing?

sabotaged? in what possible way? between our curiosity and imagination and our need for meaning we have built the world, in terms of evolution we have won the game.

in terms of animal success we have dominated the earth more completely and successfully then any other species in lifes history and we did it in some million years, a blip in the earths lifetime.

without question its had negative effects but in terms of evolutionary success (ie domination of the environment) its hands down been an advantage.