An argument for a God , a Creator , first Cause, a Divine Author or whatever you want to call It. I'll use the term God/Creator
The function of all living things is to procreate. For plants and animals that Operate more on instinct and are not self aware their entire life force is dedicated to this one function. Literally everything they do is for this purpose only whether it be the creation of fruit for an animal to eat to disperse the seeds, the production of pollen for the bees and other insects to pollinate, a color or a smell that attracts whatever animal it needs for this one purpose. This is their equilibrium, their expression and manifestation of the universes function and is their meaning. Some species risk death to procreate and others die after procreation. For intelligent self aware creatures their expression's and manifestations express the greater diversity and meaning that is God the universe and in order for (creation) the universe to fulfill its function there must be higher and greater intelligence for the function of (creation) the universe is to create and manifest. I am not saying that intelligence was a prerequisite for the creation of our universe but through evolution intelligence was and is necessary for greater creation and manifestation for this is the fulfillment and the function of (creation) the universe. I am also not saying there was no intelligence, for the Big bang/expansion was not the beginning of our universe it was the manifestation of our universe already conceived. Is conception required for manifestation? For intelligence, yes even if the exact outcome is unknown. Evolution is a part of consistency. Intelligence is not necessary for evolution but intelligence is necessary for creation. Everything in our universe prior to the Big bang / expansion can be explained through evolution. In order for God to express It's self, it had to create conditions for it to happen. It was no mistake that our universe was created with all the necessary ingredients for higher intelligent life to evolve. Everything evolves from smaller to larger from ignorant to enlightened. If you were God and you wanted to express yourself fully then you have to create the conditions where life can thrive and where higher intelligence can evolve to understand you and to express limitless and infinite possibilities.
Every living thing on Earth that is not self-awareness and does not have free will purpose in life is to procreate for it is essential for the survival of the species. Literally everything they do is for that one purpose and will risk death to accomplish it. Living things that are self-aware and have free will also has a primordial built-in desire to procreate beyond reason. This desire is imperative and universal and comes from the source of all creation.
In order for God to truly propagate/to create intelligence that it can truly commune with it would be imperative for it's children to have the possibility to fulfill its potential, mentally and spiritually and in order for us to fulfill our potential we as multidimensional beings must in some part be eternal and entangled for that would be the only way that we could manifest our true potential and become closer to God the Creator. For the Creator to propagate it would have the desire, a universal urge to do so and which is embedded in every fiber of all of creation. For its offspring to truly be a offspring it must have the possibility to evolve and manifest into something greater, something that can reflect the same abilities and consciousness of our father made available to us. In the Bible when Jesus said all these things and greater you shall do I believe this consciousness and understanding that we have the potential for is what he was talking about and him preparing a room it's just a metaphor for our growth to where we are and where we are not and where we could be.
In order for God, the Creator, a Creator, first Cause or whatever you want to call it to express it's self, it's being it had to create conditions for it to happen. It was no mistake that our universe was created with all the necessary ingredients for higher intelligent life to evolve. Everything evolves from smaller to larger from ignorant to enlightened. If you were God and you wanted to express yourself fully then you have to create the conditions where life can thrive and where higher intelligence can evolve to understand you and to express limitless and infinite possibilities. This, our universe is a perfect whole and complete example and manifestation for those infinite possibilities.
For us procreation is a continuation of the species as defined by evolution for God the manifestation of our universe, our reality with all the necessary ingredients thru which evolution has create species of higher intelligence, eventually culminating in species/intelligence that although will not be infinite in the same scope as God will nevertheless be able to understand and commune with The Creator. To say that the creation of our universe was just a simple part of cosmic evolution does not explain the why. The impetus of intelligent beings desire to manifest and create.
Intelligence require physical form and the ability to communicate. Infinite intelligence requires infinite form which is the definition of dark energy, dark matter, quantum particles and other types of energy with properties that we have yet to discover and quantum entanglement/communication which is multi-dimensional and without time. We are part of infinite intelligence for an order for It to seek It's equilibrium through It's evolution, infinite intelligence had to create infinite possibilities even if those possibilities are not manifested.
Evolution can only manifest out of itself with minor variations whereas creation can manifest beyond itself.
I cannot speak to the age of all of creation but in order for our universe to exist there had to be infinite power, infinite energy infinite force and focus in order to manipulate there had to be infinite intelligence, or All of intelligence. All of intelligence as in the collective informed intelligence of all living things and conscious beings. Everything that has manifested from the Big bang expansion that we can understand and analyze has followed the same pattern from what it was created from, this is consistent. The greater the intelligence the more complex the creation. When I say the Big bang expansion was not the beginning of the universe it was a manifestation of the universe already conceived I'm talking about consistency. there had to be consistency before creation in order for creation to exist and if everything that we know about creation as far as the evolution of planets life is at it follows a consistent and recognizable pattern always to think that or if we extrapolate prior to existence then the pattern has to exist. So if the pattern existed prior to Creation then the question is the pattern from consciousness or intelligence or is it some sort of cosmic evolution? If it is cosmic evolution and we know evolution created intelligence in our universe then it would seem plausible that prior to Creation with infinite power and infinite energy that infinite intelligence could be manifested.
There is randomness but the randomness or mutations in order for them to procreate they must become consistent this is a evolutionary requirement. Take birth defects as an example science can tell why a birth defect happens through a recessive gene or something with the DNA or RNA and even though it might be random it is consistent enough that if we give it a name and is identifiable then it is essentially consistent especially all of the components surrounding the one cause for the deformity the fetus must be consistent for its term and birth even if there is a randomness about a part of it s development