Sounds a bit like the Big Bang, doesn't it? Personally I think God, or the Creator, or whatever you might call Him or Her, designed the laws of phyics such that evolution could and does occur, that life could and does exist and that intelligent life could and did arrise, at least quasi-intelligent anyway, in at least one place in the universe. A strange way to go about it? Sure, from certain perspectives, but then again God works his Wonders in strange ways is pretty much a truism, is it not?
Sounds a bit like the Big Bang, doesn't it?
Here's an idea. Suppose there was nothing (as in zero), and God (or whom/whatever) grabbed it and tore it asunder. And bingo, the zero changed into +1 and -1!
Matter and Antimatter?
Something from nothing!