Who's Nagel anyway ? Human knowledge is limited ,so how can one pretend to be able to know what God "has in mind " or to know everything there is to know .One has to have full knowledge or full data of the ultimate nature of reality to pretend to be able to say what you said here above , ironically enough .Have you ?
.Even human science does deal only with the lowest level of reality so far , the physical one , while there are higher levels of reality that can be approached only by the corresponding levels of consciousness about which science cannot but remain silent ,which also means that the ultimate nature of reality is within as well as without , but the only way to get to know it is through knowing the self , by letting go of the false illusory ego ....
Look within then , if you wanna know about the ultimate nature of reality ...
Furthermore ,reminds me of what Nagel said once on the subject of God , or in similar words to the same effect at least :
I don't want there to be a God . I still remember the religious terror i suffered from when i was a kid ....
Nagel just doesn't want to face the obvious existence of God and the consequences attached to that in forms of responsibilities , duties ...
His ego is his God thus.He's not an atheist thus, nobody is . Everybdy does worship, so to speak, one kind of God or another , consciously or unconsciously .
Why not surrender to the real one and only God , to the ultimate nature of reality within and without , to the divine within ... unconditionally and with ...love ,that is ?