[exmarine]

Perhaps you would like to speculate on an additional reasonable answer for the origins of the universe?

[donh]

Perhaps you would like to speculate on an additional reasonable answer for the origins of the universe?

There are, in my view, no reasonable explanations for such a profoundly amazing thing.

Just restricting myself to things I remember on FR:

1)  It's turtles all the way down.
2)  God whopped it up from scratch.
3)  The Great fox pooped it out.
4)  Baal gave it as a gift to Magog
5)  It never came into being--it's always been
    a)  it loops back on itself
    b)  it's only one basic particle that jumps back and
        forth in time to weave the whole megilla
    c)  It's part of the megaverse of universes, and our
        matter is interweaved indetectibly with the matter
        of other universes.
6)  Its the illusion of
    a)  my mind.
    b)  god's mind
    c)  some other mind.
    d)  a mutually interlocked set of illusionary minds
        imagining each other into existence.
7)  It's an attenuated adjunct of entwined superstrings in
    other Xverses--an afterthought, or junkyard whose
    laws and motions are created to provide counterbalance,
    damping, and waste dump to more rationally operating
    universes.
8)  It's the equivalent of a miscellaneous particle in a
    super-universe, which is, itself, a miscellaneous
    particle in a super-super-universe.
9)  8) with a loop.  The highest universe is a particle in
    our universe.