Agreed. A universe without a God is not the simplest answer.
It actually is. It accepts the “I don’t know” at its real location, rather than adding a couple of extra steps. Because once you start trying to describe or explain God and His workings, you generally have to admit that He is Unknowable, that mere humans cannot explain how He came to be, how He does what he does, why He does what he does. Sooner or later you have to admit “I don’t know” (usually rephrased as “God works in mysterious ways” or “I know because it’s in the Bible” or “I feel it in my heart” or “There must be a reason.”) Sooner or later the answer, boiled down to its honest bones is “I don’t really know.”
It actually is. It accepts the “I don’t know” at its real location, rather than adding a couple of extra steps. Because once you start trying to describe or explain God and His workings, you generally have to admit that He is Unknowable, that mere humans cannot explain how He came to be, how He does what he does, why He does what he does. Sooner or later you have to admit “I don’t know” (usually rephrased as “God works in mysterious ways” or “I know because it’s in the Bible” or “I feel it in my heart” or “There must be a reason.”) Sooner or later the answer, boiled down to its honest bones is “I don’t really know.”