Or they may not have.
Or conscious beings may have evolved via nature sans conscious interdiction..
Speculations and facts.
Fact 1:: conscious beings exist.
Fact 2:: conscious humans can and do increasingly understand nature to control nature in order to benefit self and other people.
Speculation 1: conscious beings control macro events of the Universe and create new universes.
Speculation 2: supernatural God.
Speculation 3: speculative God created the Universe.
Fact 3: 2,300 years of history shows that political and religious leaders have convinced followers to kill several magnitude more people than scientists and businessmen/women have.
I'm not all that interested in speculation. I'm interested in inductive reasoning. Please give evidence of your beliefs.
I don't believe your Fact 3 is a fact.
Show me the raw data and the math, please.
Unless, of course, you are including Communism as a religion.