"A bunch of synapses, neurons, and cells in brain juice and pumped with energy doesn’t form a mind with emotions and the sense of right and wrong."
Grab a bottle of whisky and check how that fits in with that notion by the time that bottle runs dry.
According to the Eden story, the sense of right and wrong was gifted to Eve and Adam by a God - the Serpent God - by sharing with them the fruit from which the Gods got theirs. Then that other God, a jealous and wrathful God, had a hissy fit and threw them out of the Garden, and the world has been corrupted and ruled by evil ever since.
"A pinprick of unknown origin suddenly blows up for no reason which leads to the Earth, and eventually a living speck appears out of nowhere and then makes fish and bugs, which leads to frogs and lizards, then mammals, then monkeys, then humans for no reason?"
A pinprick of unknown origin that we call "Yahweh" - a tribal God for a small group of people in a dot in the Middle East - suddenly blows up the big nothing for no reason which lead to the Earth, and went from the sole living speck in eternity who then appeared out of nowhere a few millenia ago and told the Hebrews he had made fish and bugs, frogs and lizards, mammals, then humans for no reason?
"Or does an intelligent creator who carefully made everything, and loves us seem more reasonable?"
Intelligent creatorS (... make them in OUR image) who carefully made everything yet made them flawed, including people in their likeness who just so happen to be the most frail creatures to have ever walked the Earth and then orders people to love them or be punished for forever then hides to see if they will pass this 'test' seem more reasonable?