Where did all this matter come...
no answer other than it just was...

Not quite.

I was quite the Evolutionist at the great age of 18.

High school graduate, going to tech school in the Air Force, ready to tackle the World!

I knew the Einstein equation: E=mc².

I'd heard all about the Big Bang in school.

I wuz SMART!!

But I wasn't prepared for the question put to me one crisp fall evening in Denver; so many years ago...

It was a dark and (no; not that one) starry night that midnight hour I was walking back to Lowry after leaving my girlfriends home.

We'd watched the Miracle of Lourdes on latenight tv. Now she was a Catholic girl and LOVED the movie, while I was an agnostic who silently thought, "Hooey!"

But I couldn't put the thoughts out of my mind as I returned to base. My 'great learning' was getting tested and failing. When I finally thought (or said!) something like, "Well; what about the BB theory and E=mc² and all that??

POOF!

And the Universe appeared!

(I knew the equation could be rewritten as m=E/c² )

So the the Question came:

Where did the Energy come from?

(HE didn't even ask me, "Where did the LIGHT come from?")

Let there be LIGHT!

And Light was.

Interesting point....