What about: the universe is just an algorithmic process?

I think it's wrong to look at a waterfall and see the art of a designer, however beautiful and creative it may appear. It once was the case (and still is here and there) that Homo sapiens saw a designer in all things created by natural algorithms, such as coastal arches, mountains, or baboons. To do so with the universe is to put unnecessary and possibly supernatural speculation into the gaps of our understanding. We don't need to do that anymore.

The sun isn't a god. We cracked that one.

We like to see designers because we are designers. Instead we should teach ourselves (raise our consciousness) to see natural algorithms; untutored, unsculpted, unheeded. After all, we are the result of such a process. We weren't designed, and I see no reason whatsoever to think the universe was, however comforting the notion.

I find it helps to remember that the universe wants to kill us a lot more than it wants to keep us alive.