Good conversation, Adam, and I'd like to add that while we may not know where the egg came from, we do know that it had to get broken before the omelet of materialization could have come about.
By focusing on what we cannot know (and the discussion then being between either accepting or rejecting), folks forgot to look at the structural setup and did not see the baby in the bathwater.
We can start out with Energy (Energy does not get lost, so we also do not need to find it), but we must have a breakage occurring in that original state. We cannot get a fundamentally new outcome (matter) unless something fundamentally happened first in the original conditions (whatever those original conditions were).
In science, Big Bang theorists 'forgot' to consider the breaking of the original state. They have no clue and come up with subtle answers that avoid the fundamental aspect. The breakage is a full and fundamental breakage. It should be told in a loud manner.
If we start with God (which is fine by itself), then we must have a fundamental breakage occurring in that God. If we declare ourselves non-God, then the other part may receive the term God, but that God is then not the same as the original God. The original God broke and the separation itself is then mightier than the remaining God on the other side.
In our universe, to make the point, Space is infinite. No matter what properties we give to the remaining God, that God will have to accept Space as larger than God godself. Where the original God may have been Almighty, the remaining God is not Almighty and in how far that God is mighty is a very fine point of discussion that can be discussed later if so desired.
