With respect, it’s not. That only seems plausible from the Newtonian perspective of the ‘Great Machine’ from which both mind and God are disembodied and perfectly detached. In reality, the appearance of living beings is itself the visible manifestation of intentionality (which is the great lesson of phenomenology, see On Purpose). The meaningless universe from which the Sacred has withdrawn is itself an abstraction, albeit a highly persuasive one.