I will prove to you that God exists

[Alan V]

Ultimately, adding a deity has no explanatory powers, so doesn't answer any questions we have about the origins of life and the universe, while adding a whole lot more unanswered questions. 

Drew never managed any cogent response to this violation of Occam's razor. Though based on a lifetime of asking theists such questions, and their vapid responses, I'd have bet my house on him having an empty bag, right at the start.

I want to read more about the quantum vacuum. There is a book titled Nothing: A Very Short Introduction by Professor of Physics Frank Close, which I have already read and highlighted passages in. It discussed what I heard about elsewhere, that quantum mechanics maintains that there can be no perfect vacuum, so even apparent nothing must have quantum properties. This is important to this discussion since it implies that the universe did not come from absolutely nothing at all, but from the quantum vacuum through symmetry splitting. This possible explanation seems to be economical to what it is actually trying to explain, the weird physics of the origin of the universe.

There may or may not be other universes, and we will likely never know. However, we just might be able to figure out what configured the one we live in. I will also have to read more about holographic cosmology, which provides some rationale about how the universe evolved to have the properties it did through quantum entanglement. Both areas of study seem more promising than any armchair philosophizing about the properties (or motives) of a First Cause. At least they have mathematical explanations.