(July 12, 2013 at 8:42 pm)Consilius Wrote: OK, the universe had an origin. Where did the universe come from? How did it come to be?
The universe had an origin of a sort, but regardless your question is malformed. For starters, you need to define what you mean by 'universe'.
Clearly you cannot be defining it as the totality of existence, because then your question answers itself: it always has existed in some form.