Well, I don't believe that the universe was "created". I think a lot of philosophical questions are no more than mind games; the result of a human mind trying to apply it's limited concepts to the world around it. Therefore, our imagination begins to mold our perception of the world to fit us, even though the universe doesn't revolve around our rather insignificant lives.
I just believe in the potential of the human mind; meaning, it's all we need to believe in to succeed in our lives. When I say we're our own gods, I mean that religious ideas of god came from our minds, and represents ourselves in many ways, therefore I label humans as the true gods. As for all the unknown, I feel that the reason we don't understand it is because we don't need to. It's important for us to deal with life, not death, for example.
While we might evolve and gain new understandings of our world in the far future, for now, we are expanding in the areas which our minds are capable of understanding. I think humans need to make the same advancements in communication as they do in technology though. If we focus more on Psychology and Sociology, we'll see greater improvements in Social Evolution (which is what we really need now, in this unbalanced world of ours, imho) and we'll also be able to view religion objectively.