Where it all comes from, 'the colossal scatter of the physical universe and the terrifying void beyond it' or words to that effect (AC, passim) is certainly an impenetrable mystery to me.
This doesn't make me believe in a friendly if severe God though. Takes some people that way, but not me. Some physicists suggest the universe may have originated in a 'primal big bang' apparently out of nothing. That seems dangerously close to God to me... but an impenetrable mystery is dangerously Goddish too.
Problem with the universe is its apparently infinite scale, too big to grasp 'accurately'. We can't help worrying our little heads about it, but that doesn't make us much wiser. We are stuck inside it so can't imagine it from the outside.
We should stick to our lasts and lathes. That may help us learn to measure infinity in the fulness of time.
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