Quote:Whether or not a conscious agent is required and whether or not
IT IS NOT, PERIOD!
You and I were not around 1 billion years ago and we wont be around 1 billion years from now.
If one is going to stupidly postulate a consciousness as a starting point then any god any human makes up can fill that gap. The truth of why you read what I type is not magic or a mystery, it is an EMERGENT property of a non cognitive pattern.
Otherwise Thor did consciously make lightening and the sun is a god because the Ancient Egyptians had imaginations.