I have like 10 theories of the universe, and pretty much all of them are creationist, but I don't believe in the gods as we describe them in books.
The theory I tend to align with most is that this universe was created, but not by a God. I believe it may have been created by beings. I believe an advanced race of beings with millions of years of scientific progress and a complete understanding of atomics and other sciences we don't yet understand created this universe, from an alternate reality.
They created the universe with the properties and physics we see in order for life to evolve the way it does, in what I would consider somewhat of a scientific experiment. The universe may be an infinite source of power designed to expand and contract for infinity, never gaining or losing energy, but constantly changing energy into different forms. This self contained power source eventually contracts back into a single point only to expand once again in a never ending cycle of life, continually expanding and contracting. (The big bang theory)
Then again, Perhaps there is no contraction and what we have now is all we will ever get, and the atoms and particles that make up our universe have a finite life cycle, and once they decay the universe will forever be devoid of life, until the next one is created.
Imo we don't have souls and we are not really special. We are a byproduct of the way our universe evolves. The universe evolves creatures like us wherever the right ingredients exist. We are just animals.
Maybe the beings who created this universe live in an alternative reality where the laws of physics are completely different, and they understand how to engineer universes with different physics, different evolutionary paths, and perhaps they use these universes as a way to better understand life, studying what happens and accumulating knowledge to apply to future universes they engineer.
One might ask if I believe this universe was created by beings, then who created those beings? I don't know. I just know it wasn't the gods we describe.
Tldr version
-Our universe may have been designed by intelligent beings from another reality
- Our universe may be an experiment to better understand different evolutionary processes and the effect of different physics on living beings, and ultimately what it can produce
- We are just animals part of a larger study, we are not special