So far we have only two opposing views on this broad-brush topic. Either there is a god of some sort (silicon, traditional organic, energy-only, something) and we have strict causality deriving from this god's actions; or we have a probabilistic-based causality that doesn't require a god, just amenable conditions.
Is there a third "creation" position about which anyone has heard?
Having asked the question, I'm on the the probability track that says we don't need a creator, silicon or otherwise. But here is another question to confound the issue. According to cosmologists, time didn't exist until a certain event started it. But that implies a causality chain. We have a sense of time, but that is bound out with space-time per Albert Einstein. Is there another type of time that is outside of our traditional sense of the flow of time?