Why Something Rather Than Nothing?

[datc]

The choice between the forms (essences) of the universe to be created was either random or intelligent. If it was determined, the problem is simply pushed back one step. In fact, randomness is the intelligence of matter or merely material objects.

This part is incomprehensible.

A bug flies into a room through the open door, and starts fluttering about wildly, obviously hoping that these (mostly) random motions will, with a bit of luck, allow it to find the door and get back outside.

If the bug were smarter, it might be able to find its way out by thinking. But it's stupid, so it relies on the primitive random path generator to escape the trap of the room. Yet for all that, it may nevertheless succeed, which means that randomness is a form of intelligence.

Here is a simple example. Pick a number from -infinity to +infinity.

I can't. Without further instructions on how to narrow down the range of choices (such as "pick one of the first 43 positive primes"), there is no procedure in my mental computer that can get me to pick any one number and set aside all others.

I'm like the Buridan's ass in this case.

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To consider a member of a set for selection simply means that its getting selected must be possible. But it's impossible for any RNG to choose literally between -infinity to +infinity, unless unbeknownst to us, someone has limited its range of choices to a finite set.