Mark, until I read Kurzweil's interesting argument that we're most likely living in a simulation (within a simulation, etc. -almost all the way down) I thought there was more likely than not no intelligent creator of our apparent reality. Now it seems to me the stronger argument that our apparent reality is a simulation of some other intelligence's reality, with some abstractions/reductions of their more complex reality. Just like we've already filled the Earth with various (and increasingly better) simulations of the universe and our own apparent reality).