(I've been watching too much Gutfeld.)
I think you are hitting on the guts of it.
If we look at time, distance, space, energy, matter etc. naturalistically, then we are simply agonizing over our ability to observe, deduce, interpolate but not really getting to the heart of the matter.
Nothing happens without input, action, energy intent etc, iows, an actor, a prime cause. To think otherwise is lunacy (a space term!).
So, if we simply assume everything has a purpose, was purposeful and thought out, then we really ought to be looking not at the “stuff” or it’s mechanisms, but rather to the Creator. These days the naturalistic is god. It is not. It is simply our attempt to define without attribution.
God is. Everything else is his creativity.
Who dares look at all of these issues through that lens? We all get the same facts, what do we do with them?
Space time energy matter, created by a Creator. Must be a reason.
We have long separated the philosophic from the rational to our lack I think.
I will look to the author, so I can understand his words. Many will look at the words and deny an author...