At any rate, one has to accept that there is something out there well beyond our (at least current) level of understanding. I don’t see why it being a deity of some kind is any less likely or more ridiculous than any alternative explanations.

I'm with you here, but with near infinite possibilities for the questions that we have that will remain unanswered, choosing any specific possibility as the truth is in my opinion, foolish itself. Including the possibility that what is out there is not just a natural process we don't understand with no self awareness. Which is why you should convert to true dirtbag centrism: agnosticism.

Either way nice writeup, I liked it.