On Monday, October 15, 2018 at 11:29:25 PM UTC-6, palsing wrote:

I think that H.L. Mencken could kick Roger Williams' butt any day of the week
when it comes to quotes :)

"Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is
still running it? It is certainly perfectly conceivable that He may have
finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. In the same way
many human institutions are turned over to grossly inferior men. This is true,
for example, of most universities, and of all great newspapers."
H.L. Mencken

Actually, that's not inconsistent with his theory at all.

First, there's a supernatural First Cause, the One God of theology, Who created
the Universe causing the first Big Bang...

and then He left running it to those advanced aliens the other poster is talking
about.

John Savard