Human experience leads to the conclusion that if something exists, then something must have caused it. Instinct directs observation to objectify, and sentient creatures to give objects names. The personified cause of creation is seen as being sentient and sapient. This envisioned being (or beings) is an extension of human society. They personify the source of creation as the ultimate human, usually an all-powerful masculine ruler to whom all must subjugate themselves, a glorification of how most societies prefer to see men or saw them thousands of years ago but continues as tradition.
For me, God is not the creator but creation. In the physical universe, causal laws known and yet to be known have evolved reality from a likely unknowable beginning (currently called the big bang) to the present time. The materials, matter and energy, led inevitably to animate forms we think of as life that likely exists throughout the cosmos.
In addition to the physical universe, a mental universe exists in which individually and collectively a “picture” of the physical and social world is imagined. However, I think that a third universe exists, a conceptualization arising from an evolving consciousness. It is, for want of a better term, a spiritual universe. It provides recognition that while it is necessary for one to meet the needs that enable an individual’s survival, it is more important to forgo one’s desires and to meet the needs of others instead. Not surprisingly, this is a fundamental tenant of most if not all religions.