I must say that you brought up an excellent question. If all material come from god then its not necessary to assume that it was god, but rather the vast elements out there with in the universe. As we speak right now, universes and planets are being born out of calumny(Chaos) with out chaos there can be not creation.
But to make a hard point even the deep religious zealots once believe that the earth was centered and everything revolve around it. So, to them a deity existing out side of our universe is the only thing they have to halt the progress of logical in our time, but it is another one of there unproven religios theory destine to fall like the rest. Also you made another point concerning rather a deity has been created.
Here is my hypothesis if a being was created with high level intelligence to bring about organic life or possible brainwash to a low level intelligent society with the use of unknown technology then its is no coincidence that he found a planet with inhabits that were still in their planetary development, but think back 2,000 years ago of a possible alien intervention in a relativity primitive culture that has no explanation of explaining what they were seeing. Think about the explain extraterrestrial sitting over an airport in China just recently it is clear they're monitoring our development right now. So, I ask this to the Christian, how can elements material that are need to creat planets, organic life, and the very unviserve be outisde of the existnce?
You have not shown you intelligence here! The Everlasting Creator God is outside of that Which he Created otherwise he would be a Creation! Which would be an Oxymoron Giganticus, God is Alpha and Omega ( The beginning and The Ending ) in other Words everything exists Because of Almighty God Not God Exists because of Everything Else!
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.