Re: “By definition, belief that powers operate beyond the laws of nature is unscientific.”
And which “laws of nature” hold that nothingness can initiate itself into somethingness? Which ones hold that nothing can bring something into existence.
None. But even the BBT starts with a singularity. No one knows what that is, but there are limits to science. But with science, rather than making up some deity to explain it all away, we just say we don’t know.