"Donal" wrote in message
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I've considered the options regarding the birth of the Universe.

As far as I can see there are three options.

God created it!
It appeared spontaneously(sp?).
It is forever expanding and contracting.


Consider:
If you had asked the same question not too long ago science would have provided
different possibilities. The odds are pretty good that our children will be
considering possibilities that haven't been dreamed up yet. Cosmology is a very
young science, and we have very limited perspective. This is not a science that
one approaches by saying "There are only two possibilities."