Yes, I agree. It is presumptuous unless you admit to yourself at the start that you simply don't know, and probably never will...and then you explore various possibilities with that degree of humility. I agree that we know very little as yet about Nature. My own guess...and that's all it is...is that consciousness didn't arise out of Nature (which would indeed be amazing...extraordinary!), but that Nature arose out of consciousness. I think consciousness comes first...then come all the various manifestations that arise out of it. I think the Universe is entirely built of consciousness, projected into forms and structures of various kinds...rather as a movie is projected onto a screen. Our dimension of time and space is like the screen, and everything that appears here is like the movie.

This does not mean that I think an anthropomorphic God figure made the world in 7 days. ;-)