I agree, as usual, that it requires inordinate faith to believe that a mechanism capable of such astonishing creativity could fashion itself out of nothing. Exactly the same objection, however, applies to a UI. -My philosophy accepts a First Cause. Something or someone started all of this. Did this come from nothing? How? In our experience, everything has a cause. To say that the universe is eternal is a cop-out. Why is anything eternal? Back to the same old question: why is there something rather than nothing?