could have been but not likely
Actually, nothing is likely. It has always seemed to me that the only reasonable situation would be if nothing at all existed. We look around and see a universe that is a million orders of magnitude more complicated than we can understand. If we throw up our hands and just say “God did it.”, we are then postulating the existance of a God who is several orders of magnitude more complicated than what we actually see as the universe.
I would be happy believing anything for which there is a shred of actual evidence. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen it yet.