Matt: Well, I'll just wait until you can explain to me how a God that exists before the universe doesn't require a causal explanation.-It is the same issue. Eithr something eternal or somehow we get something from nothing. Logically, something eternal. I choose energy in the form of a universal intelligence. God is eternal. And a universe from quantum perturbations is not something from nothing. Absolute void makes no sense as a fist cause. Something is eternal. Our spacetime? No. It had a beginning.