Well somewhere in the back of my mind I like to think that after spending what had to seem like an eternity alone, it would have been more fun to create a universe that would slowly evolve into something one could not predict.
And as to Einstein wouldn't it be a shame if one could explain the whole of creation? It would then become some kind of Looped batch program. Feynman's more fun.
I thought the "does not play dice" was an exclamation about quantum probabilities. Einstein did not think that God would be indefinite and uncertain and so there must be another interpretation. I never thought of it as a rejection of God's existence because the world was improbable and therefore God could not create it
I believe that that "proof" is tautological. It is not surprising that the basis of life is a unique substance. I do, however, agree about a greater power. It would seem to me that life would just be agreen slime if it were not for some greater power with some sort of aesthetic.