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You would probably be offended if I asked you to explain the origin of God. Attributing the nature of nature to yet another entity does not explain anything. First causes are unexplained. Live with it.

No, I'm not offended. Both an eternally self-existent intelligent personal being which is capable of bring into existence a finite universe and an infinite, impersonal universe which brought, by chance, personal, human intelligence into being and which, according to St. Carlos Sagan, is all there is, was, or ever shall be (world without end, amen) are inexplicable in terms of origins. What is less than inexplicable is which is a better explanation of what we actually (think) we see out there. Some people say an intelligent being. Some people say material determinism. The latter call the former religious. The former acknowledge this. The latter, though, for the most part, don't realize that their cosmological certainty is no less a matter of unprovable presuppositions than the religious. It's just a place they'd rather start. And their reasons for wanting to start there are no less religious than those of the self-acknowledged religious.