there's a theory that 'existence' is like a blanket on a clothesline, and that there are an infinite number of blankets hanging alongside one another. and that some force, like a breeze, caused one blanket to come into contact with ours, and that caused the big bang and our universe. and it's possible the same two 'blankets' are in contact with each other in multiple locations, and also with multiple blankets causing an infinite number of universes. i read about it popular science a couple years ago.

i agree the spontaneous creation from absolutely nothing just doesn't do it for me. also, isn't that pretty much against the laws of science to begin with? despite their little boiling water steam bubble analogy which i found pretty weak.

i beleive they spoke of observational evidence on spontaneously created matter and antimatter in Atom: The illusion of reality. however, i think it was made up by a guy who worked in a paint plant, so it might have been the fumes.

We may never know what the natural event that caused the Big Bang was (I believe it has something to do with the type of compression that we observe in stars), but falling back on a supernatural explanation is essentially giving up on your own intelligence. "God did it" is too simple an answer for many people in this day in age but conversely it was the best answer for those who wrote the bible/koran/other doctrines because of their lack of knowledge of scientific principles.

The very notion of infinity I find endlessly fascinating. The universe might be a (relatively tiny) bubble in an ocean of bubbles in an ocean of bubbles in an ocean of bubbles ad infinitum ...