Considering that the laws of thermodynamics kick in so easily, I don’t believe that the universe can run on autopilot. I think that for life to grow and grow properly, it needs constant sustaining to override entropy.
Not that God mandates our every action, I am not a double predestinationist and do believe that God gave man free will which He will not override, I do believe that He must maintain some level of involvement simply to just keep things from flying apart. And I do believe He sets up events in our lives for us to encounter, but that He does not orchestrate our reponses, like puppets on a string.
Fo me ‘maintaining some level of involvement’ could be taken to the extreme that God is all-powerful [i.e. the ultimate source of all energy]. Therefore taken with Einstein’s E = MC squared implies how God created everything ex nihilo [out of nothing] for if we could take the zeroth thermodynamic law to absolute zero [e=0] then would the mass also go to zero [m=0] like some kind of cosmic collision?
This is not a vote for pantheism or God in all things as I believe the Bible quite clearly that God resides in Heaven and can not be in the presence of sin. But if we could see the big picture universe down the the ‘bottom right hand corner’ should be a trademark indicating ‘powered by God.’