A God is not a supernatural entity but the identification of a social superorganism from the perspective of the individual, which takes primacy over individual interests. The soul is the relation that binds the individual to the projected superorganism.
The whole creator thing is a red herring. A creator cannot give a purpose. Genesis is the earliest childhood memory of a God, not the creation of the universe itself.
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Well, something created the universe. We can call it the laws of physics, or we can call it God. Or we can call it a pointy stick. The term doesn't matter. And the "purpose" is whatever direction the creative force moves things.
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I think your definition of "universe" is unusual if you think that the laws of physics preceded/created it. Following what I perceive as the common opinion (before some weird event there was *nothing* that we know of) that "that creative force" (and direction) is hidden from us.
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