As a Christian, the existence of the universe is not really a mystery or particularly complicated. God in His grace & goodness created the universe and existence is a precious gift to savour. There remains of course so much to explore and to discover, and, as with the universe, this offers practically infinite opportunities.

The God explanation, of course, doesn’t satisfy atheists but their own answers for the existence of the universe leave a lot to be desired too. They have to take into account statements like this:

Evolution has somehow settled on a brain structure that is ideally suited to teasing apart the complexity of the universe.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-extraordinary-link-between-deep-neural-networks-and-the-nature-of-the-universe

Which is lucky isn’t it? What are the odds? No, really, what are the odds?

And troubling ambiguity is everywhere – take this example:

Stars, galaxies, planets, pretty much everything that makes up our everyday lives owes its existence to a cosmic quirk.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52297058

Everything owes it’s existence to a quirk? Well, once again, that’s lucky isn’t it?

Matter and anti-matter should exist in equal amounts & therefore annihilate each other so not just why but how can there be anything at all? It is a matter of fact that at present we do not know how the universe can exist and we do not know how the 20 or so mathematical equations that explain the laws of all-known physics actually have any agency to, you know, create something.

The number of mysteries about the universe presents considerable challenges. Physicists don’t really know why anything exists, or why there are black holes that shouldn’t exist, galaxies that we don’t know how they exist, whatever dark matter is, we don’t know the origins of gold in the universe, and we don’t really know how life began on the only planet we know of that actually has any life, our own (although there could be, um, 36 in our galaxy).

There not being enough evidence for God scientists have turned to other explanations for which we have no evidence. Very clever people have wondered if the whole thing isn’t some version of The Matrix and that the truth is ‘we’re a part of a computer simulation‘ or maybe Douglas Adams got it right and we’re part of a computer program.

Personally I’m with Lisa Randall, a theoretical physicist at Harvard University when she says, “I actually am very interested in why so many people think it’s an interesting question.”

As I’ve said previously:

Having rejected the idea that what is ‘out there’ is our creator, we’ve gone in search of our galactic neighbour only to increasingly realise that we have none. There is no escape and nowhere to escape to. It seems to me that instead of seeking the answer to the question ‘who are we?’ and the related ‘why are we here?’ from the one place where we know life exists (here), we instead search for answers in the one place that has so far yielded absolutely nothing.

Scientists can it seems,without any evidence, believe in other dimensions but not heaven, an eternal universe but not an eternal God, the end of the world but not the final judgement, in other intelligent life but not intelligent design and that the meaning of life is to be found in the stars instead of the one who made them.

https://thesimplepastor.co.uk/we-are-alone-in-the-universe/