If you want to see a third theory [vs. G-d did it and poof!] check out Hugh Everett. Hawking once said that Everett’s theory is true, but trivial. Agree with the true part, emphatically disagree with the trivial assessment.
Short version. Start with a point of view (POV) of the “universe”. Each POV sees the world in a different way. Some POV are inaccessible. Every time it seems that one thing has happened but not another (e.g. Cincinnati wins), from another POV something else happened (e.g. Cincinnati lost). In the big picture, every thing that can happen, does happen.
From a D&D perspective, every time I roll a 20-sided die the “universe” splits into 20 distinct “universes”. The possibility exists for merging, but divergence is many orders of magnitude more common. The past had fewer dice; the future has more dice. Physicists call this entropy, but don’t fully explain it. If you go back to the beginning, first there were no dice, then only a few (no matter, then a little bit of matter).
This theory has several predictions.
1. From every POV the “universe” is locally hyperbolic - “universe” is expanding and will never collapse.
2. Mass of each “universe” is expanding at m = a*sqrt(t)
mass increases with the square root of time. If you are familiar with drunkards walk or gamblers math.
3. The information flow from the future to the present is greater than zero.
4. This information flow is consistent with a Deist POV (but not necessarily Christian, Jewish, Muslim, etc. POV).
5. This is also consistent with Feynmann diagrams.
Interesting idea, but how do you perform an experiment to demonstrate it?