It strikes me that, if there was a sentient creator, He went out of His way to cover up the fact: patiently implementing quigs of nature for every scale of matter and every form of energy, tirelessly working out Hubble's constant and red shifts in order to use million-mile-wide open-frame fusion reactors to make nice little speckles in the night sky, laboriously burying fake dinosaurs,


Well, you know... let's see what we have here:
  • a dude who has always existed...
  • ...in the middle of absolute nothingness.
  • whose future consists of continuing to exist in said nothingness


You say "yeah, right, as if he'd do this," while I might say "what else is he going to do, twiddle his thumbs for eternity?"

and then just setting the clockwork going and walking away, resisting any temptation to tinker with it later.


Except that you know (according to the Bible) that He does tinker -- great flood? Jonah swallowed by the whale? Jesus?
Any of those ring a bell?