A simple question

I was left with a simple question last evening, while procuring dinner for myself and my lovely wife. "Is it more reasonable to think that the universe arose from nothing or that it was created in some manner by an intelligence, a God?"

I think most a-theists these days are less non-theists than they are non-any-God-you've-put-before-me-ists. Seperate the issues, I say - that is, take away all personal experience of religions and all knowledge of man's silliness (read: moral depravity) therein and instead consider the question above seperately. Just take the simple question on its surface, without the underlying histories.

On some level, I wonder if this is not what brought Antony Flew to accept a deist's view of the universe.

Editor's note: check out The Skeptical Christian. A skeptical Christian is at least one way I'd term myself; skeptical not of Christ, but of Christianity, for certain.