But I bet you'll never be able to answer the question of who / what created the creator, will ya!  ;)  

Without invoking black magic, that is.  And circular arguments.  I think we should just stick with what we know / can prove.  The universe cycles between big bangs and big crunches indefinitely.  It has always been and always will be.  If you need a metaphor for this thing we can't completely comprehend, by all means call it god, but accept that it's just a metaphor.  And keep a lid on the rest of this 'religious' nonsense?  (Unless you're intending on feats of mind control.)

There is zero evidence in the universe that some sort of 'creator' started it all off.  None whatsoever.  And claiming things that you don't understand to be 'evidence' for the very fact that you don't understand them is an extremely weak argument, indeed.

I see it as an unfortunate side effect of atomic properties and chemical structures. Carbon 14, Hydrogen, and Oxygen are just stuck in a cycle of trying to decompose into  entropy where it can be stable, and that by mere virtue of existing, we as living organisms are responsible for the prevention of energy flow into entropy. We are responsible for energy flowing back into the environment, and we are also responsible for the prevention of energy flowing in the manner that it needs to. As long as life exists, energy will flow in a cycle, instead of a river, and whether that is a good thing or not is something we can never really say.