By that standard, it takes as much faith to believe that this universe had no sentient creator as it does to believe it was created by space bees or whatever.

Yup, that’s my point. It takes faith to believe a creator does not exist.

It doesn’t take faith to not believe in a creator.

That’s a good point. I hadn’t considered agnosticism in this conversation. Refusing to accept something as true without evidence does not take faith. However, I maintain that it takes faith to assert that there is no god/creator since we do not have actual evidence of this.