Unintelligent Desgin

[Darkstar]

But wouldn't god be "just there"? Why replace one mystery with an even bigger one? In this case god would himself have no purpose. I say we stop the infinite regress before invoking the supernatural.

Organisms do things for a reason because they are trying to survive; the universe itself has no will and thus no agency. Thus, the universe never does anything for a reason other than "the laws of physics dictate that this will happen".

So the universe, or rather whatever makes up the universe, had no beginning.  There was just always something there with no beginning. and no end, since matter can neither be created nor destroyed.

Technically matter can be destroyed if it comes into contact with antimatter, and 'created' along with an equal portion of antimatter via quantum fluctuations. Perhaps there is a set point for the ratio of matter vs. antimatter balanced by their mutual destructions and quantum fluctuations. Perhaps this is how the universe came to be. Of course, this is merely a hypothesis for which I have no proof. There is still so much about quantum physics that we still do not understand. However, just because we can't currently say how it is that the universe is here does not mean that it therefore must be magic.