I'm an atheist, but yes, I like it better. God doesn't hand carve each and every snowflake on each an every planet in the universe. He set up an algorithm and let it go. Theists don't believe in self organizing systems yet they are all around us. All forms of crystal growth are examples. A free market economy is another. Theists, like communists, just can't imagine life without the safety blanket / illusion of a central planner.
My coworker uses evolution theory inspired genetic algorithms. He doesn't know what the outcome will be, but he relies on random mutation and natural selection to find the answer for him.
The only reason that fundies fight this concept tooth in nail, is because it conflicts with the opening book of a bronze age text written by desert dwelling goat herders. It's the stupidest reason I can imagine.
In fact, although I think it unlikely, I sometimes use the god as programmer in thought experiments: a variation on the "brain in a vat" thought experiment: essentially that we are all of us simulated brains in a digital bath, and god is a pimply faced computer wiz kid. He lies "outside time and space" in the sense that he lies outside OUR time and space. He can stop the simulation, go get a sandwich and then restart it again, and we're none the wiser. He can also grow up, have kids, die, and pass the simulation down to a colleague. Or maybe it was a group effort to begin with. These god things can stop the simulation or examine statistics or change variables here and there while it runs, but they are FAR from omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent or all good or all loving. They have limited brain capacities themselves and to pay detailed attention to EVERYTHING the simulation does obviates a need for the simulation in the first place. This simulation idea leaves the big bang and evolution intact as just normal self organizing systems which obey the fundamental rules of the simulation established by the god-programmers in the 1st place. The did NOT foresee the consequences of those rules anymore than a human programmer can precisely draw the outline of the Mandelbrot set w/o running the program to generate it.
Now again, I don't actually believe in these god-programmers because there's no evidence they exist, and we shouldn't take that scenario seriously until such evidence does exist.
I guess this is a form of deist thinking about gods, which of ALL the "god exists" hypotheses out there, is the ONLY one that has even a modicum of sense to it, IMO. I'm not saying my particular picture of it, but the idea of deism in general: that god or gods set it up, pushed the on-button, and walked away, taking zero special interest in evolved hominids on one little planet.