[Physicist]

But the universe doesn't have any requirement--mathematical or philosophical--that anything come "before" it, just as there's no requirement for anything to be south of the South Pole. Causality presupposes time, and time presupposes the universe. The universe doesn't require a cause.

[TigersEye]

But the universe doesn't have any requirement--mathematical or philosophical--that anything come "before" it, just as there's no requirement for anything to be south of the South Pole. Causality presupposes time, and time presupposes the universe. The universe doesn't require a cause.

Every phenomena that arises within the universe has as its cause some condition or conditions but the phenomena of universe itself arises without cause or conditions? What is the reason for that?

[fortheDeclaration]

But the universe doesn't have any requirement--mathematical or philosophical--that anything come "before" it, just as there's no requirement for anything to be south of the South Pole. Causality presupposes time, and time presupposes the universe. The universe doesn't require a cause.

Causality presupposes an effect and the Universe was either uncaused (always existed) or is the effect of something else.