Actually Crick suggested that "we" evolved twice, once from random chance into intelligent beings in another universe "far far away", who then seeded the earth to start life evolving again. Crick would deny God twice, apparently once not being enough, in the absence of science to explain the contradiction between evolution and that pesky DNA replication process.
Apparently such theories as "panspermia", when presented by atheists, are considered scientifically more plausible than a God.
Nothing stops God from using Panspermia, or "little Earth" technology.