Why Something Rather Than Nothing?

[Ben Davis]

The choice between the forms (essences) of the universe to be created was either random or intelligent.

You're obviously a big fan of the false dichotomy. There's an obvious 3rd alternative: Non-random & unintelligent i.e. our universe could be emergent from a set of fundamental or extra-universal naturalistic functions with no intelligent intervention required. Given your (questionable) definitions we could also suggest 'intelligent & random' (e.g. a designer 'flips a coin' to determine universal attributes) or 'intelligent & non-random but naturalistic' (e.g. a designer uses a model based on existent naturalistic functions to generate a design).

You really need to abandon this theological apology. It is fundamentally untenable.