The original Star Trek hinted at an intelligent designer all the time.
When the universe is assumed to be billions of years old and our existence is a tiny fraction of that, why isn’t it possible that we are the product of some vast experiement by an intelligence greater than we can know?
TIME..... may NOT [wholly] be a linear thing.. The possibility of an Eternity/Infinity could preclude a linear reality.. as a circumference precludes the volume of a sphere..