[Paradox]

Inflationary theory solves this problem by showing how our universe could emerge from less than a milligram of matter

This is one way it could have happened.

Or God may have created the universe.

One of these notions strikes me as ludicrous.

These notions are not mutually exclusive.

[ClearCase_guy]

God is not bound by Natural Law. God can take a milligram of material (or less) and create a vast universe containing many trillions of suns. No problem.

Science is bound by Natural Law. I think it is ... challenging ... for science to explain how a milligram of material can be used to create trillions of tons of matter.

The fact that String Theory (apparently) explains how this can be so, goes a long way toward explaining why String Theory is not taken seriously by a lot of people (the WSJ had an article a few months ago saying that Physics may have wasted a few decades devoting much of its best talent toward a theory that has become a joke).