The boys pulling "explanations" for natural phenomenon out of their butts as usual! Most of religion seems to have evolved in this way, i.e. everything had a deistic cause at some point in the past and modern religions evolved from those going back to pre-monotheistic days when even things like storms, trees and volcanoes had some kind of "agency" behind them. Humans (as evolved primates with conscious brains) assign agency to our actions and so we look for agency in everything in nature too. Fortunately though, since the enlightenment, we've realised that we were wrong about that and most things operate because of natural processes due to the laws of physics, chemistry and biology!
Some people are yet to cotton onto this though and still cling onto that primitive desire for agency.
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