2nd approach: If The Universe is governed by a collection of laws agreed upon by scientists as 'natural', then the greatest living cosmologist and natural scientist can act as Prime Mover (by proxy for Mother Nature) by explaining everything.

Ken, I am a professional explainer, but I think merely "explaining everything" is not the same as being the Prime Mover.  Writers often feel they have captured a subject by writing about it. Preservationists often feel they control a building because they have restored it (which is why the urge to restore is not far from the urge to demolish).  

 

Ken, I was prefiguring your email tonight as I left the late show of "In America"; because the theater was closing, they had set the first-to-basement escalator in reverse (up), so that it met the second-to-first escalators at the same dead-end fire exit, a vestibule perhaps 5'x5'.  The unexpected sight of two escalators dead-ending in a confined space struck me as slightly hilarious, slightly menacing. 

 

Then I noticed the popcorn.  The popcorn that people had spilled on the escalator.  It was trapped like seaweed along a rack line, rolling and tumbling on the disappearing treads against the final platform.  The big fluffy ones bounced and popped, the hard little partly-popped ones hugged the surface. Some of then were gradually being chewed down.  Occasionally, fresh ones arrived. The line of popcorn moved back and forth, laterally, according to, apparently, chance.   Like snowflakes - and like people - each was different; I thought I saw life there.  I thought I saw God.

 

Those childbirth  coaching tapes, it annoyed me that they had music when the child was born; stupid, contrived, I thought.  When my children were born I heard the music.

 

Best,  Christopher