Mr. Dawkins could you please explain why, that if there is no God, did the universe bother to create itself?
Pairs of particles are constantly being created out of nothing, by “borrowing” the energy from the potential of the vacuum. When the particles (a particle and an anti-particle) recombine, they destroy each other and repay the energy debt to the vacuum.
It’s believed that space below the Planck level is a seething froth of particle creation and destruction, which we cannot see, much like you can’t see the small waves of the ocean from an airplane.
In the first moments, the universe was infinitely dense, unimaginably hot, and contained pure energy. But witnin a tiny fraction of a nanosecond, vast numbers of fundamental particles had appeared, created out of energy as the universe cooled.