And why would I expect there to be answers that are not naturalistic?The possible and partial how answers can come through science, but when it comes to the things that aren't naturalistic answers, the how might have to wait until the doer shows us.
God does not need to be more complicated and God is not just assumed, God is reasoned.
Let's face it, our complex brain and body self assembled if that is what you believe.
If you want to treat God like a thing to be scientifically studies then maybe God is a harder answer. But what consciousness is, is hard, and just saying that brains are complex is no answer. How something knows to assemble itself to a functioning thing is a hard thing.
You are *assuming* there is a 'God' and assuming you know what that entity wants or is capable of. The 'reasons' used to justify belief in a deity are all, as far as I have seen, poorly argued and ultimately invalid.
So, yes, God is most definitely a harder answer. At the very least, it assumes many things that are simply not in evidence. It also assumes many things where all the evidence points in the other direction.
Did my complex brain and body self-assemble? Certainly. That is sort of what happens in embryonic development, after all. Nothing supernatural occurs: only chemistry and physics. Yet the complex human body self-assembles spontaneously along with the brain.
A thing does not need to 'know' how to self-assemble. It just has to have the properties required for self-assembly: attractions between different parts of such a nature that the parts come together in the required way. During development, you certainly did not 'know' how to self-assemble. Yet you did.
And self-assembly is common in chemistry, for example. In many situations, more complex chemicals are formed naturally and spontaneously from simpler precursors given the right conditions. Self-assembly is actually common in many areas of science. For example, stars 'self-assemble' without any intelligence being required, only the gravitational properties of the matter they are made from.