The universe is so vast that probability requires the existence of an un fathomable level of life sustaining planets, and intelligent species.
Level One, the level your species has reached, begins with the invention of the flying machine. The next level is achieved when a species is no longer dominated by or dependent upon it's own primary – your Sun. They are able to prosper away from their own, or indeed any other, stellar system. Humanity is only just into the flying machine phase, so as you can imagine, on that scale, the human race is somewhat near the bottom of the level one pack.
The only ones who reach level two are those who learn to accept and to live with their most dangerous knowledge. Each and every individual in such a species must eventually become capable of destroying their entire species at any time. Yet they must learn to control themselves to the degree that they can survive even such deadly insight. And frankly, they’re the only ones we really want to see leaving their solar systems. Species that haven’t achieved that maturity could not be allowed to infect the rest of the universe, but fortunately that has never required my intervention. The knowledge always does the trick.
Level 3- A species evolves and advances to the point that it obtains godlike powers. Instead of manipulating matter, which requires energy, energy itself is manipulated. There will be species that reach this point, although they will be few.
It is worth emphasising two critical points about my atheist vision of godhood.
First the resulting intelligent entity is at least as omnipotent and omniscient as anything the religious believer can possibly imagine. Probably considerably more so because, in my experience, their imagination is somewhat limited. But any gods which emerge to meet my criteria for being gods will certainly be capable of all the trivial things religions assign to them. Most importantly they will be capable of creating Universes rather like our own and it is - in that sense - entirely plausible (though we cannot assess the probability) that we exist in a Universe created by such an entity.
But second, even if such an entity created our Universe, I am utterly certain that it would have evolved in another one - probably rather similar. In other words, in the eternal Chicken and Egg question, which came first, the Universe or the God, the answer is "a" Universe. This is, of course, the exact opposite of the religious concept, where a self booting creator magicked the universe/s into existence from nothing.
The principle evidence for my belief is precisely the Emergent Property of intelligence that is clearly a fundamental component of matter. I have argued elsewhere that Intelligence is a continuum which began with the first quantum fluctuation and logically ends with godlike omniscience/omnipotence. We ourselves are perhaps 1% of the way along this path.
Perhaps our universe was created by a hype revolved species seeking to avoid the death of their universe?