Wrong way around my friend. There's no evidence the universe is conscious, no a priori reason to think it is, and plenty of reasons to think it isn't, chief among them being the lack of evidence that it is. You're the one making the contrary claim, the burden of providing the evidence is on you, not mrgrumpy.
Is there really a 'wrong' way around Dexter? I'm asking proof that the Universe is a lifeless and unconscious lump of energy and matter. While you're asking proof that this lump of energy and matter is alive and conscious...
You can make a case for both scenarios. From my point of view, we are part of the Universe and if we define ourselves as conscious, than that makes the Universe conscious, or at least partly conscious. We as humans are not totally conscious (think of dreamless sleep) yet we still define ourselves as conscious. We don't view our stomach as being conscious but still view the whole as conscious. We are a part of the Universe so couldn't that make the whole conscious? If the Universe didn't have the potential for consciousness, our consciousness wouldn't be possible... If we are the only conscious 'part' of the universe than WE are the consciousness of the Universe and the Universe, if seen from a holistic point of view, is conscious.
From another point of view, WE (humans) are not the Universe, we are apart from it, we are a distinct and seperate entity. Then it becomes possible to doubt that the rest is intelligent and to take for granted that it isn't. I prefer to affirm that I simply don't know whether it is conscious or not. I tend to think it is conscious, because it doesn't make sense to me to think that I could be an island of consciousness within a sea of unconsciousness. But that's a personal belief, not knowledge.