I don't understand the mathematics of cosmology completely.
"Therefore, God created the Universe."
What a simplistic, foolish statement that would be, if I were to make it.
Incredibly few people fully understand the math that is being used to investigate the moment the universe began, much less what was around before that. There are a few people who are using such math to discover those secrets. I am not one of those people. My brain does not work with that sort of mathematics.
However, I do not automatically attribute the beginnings of our universe to some invisible, all-powerful, entity that somehow created the thing magically and without causation. Why would I do that? Where did that deity stand when it created the universe? It's a ridiculous solution for my inability to process the mathematics of cosmology. I would not substitute an irrational explanation for something people are actively investigating, using math I don't understand fully.
Just because I don't understand something does not mean that there is a supernatural explanation for it. That is a leap way too far. Instead, my tendency is to watch to see what those who do understand that math have to say about it in terms I do understand. Year after year, their explanations get closer to that moment in space/time. I can understand what the mathematics conclude, even if I can't follow them to that conclusion.
I also know that if someone makes an error in that abstruse world of mathematics, someone else will be quick to point that out, because that is the path to the Nobel Prize in Physics or Mathematics. That esoteric world is highly competitive, it seems. So, recognition of past errors leads to new discoveries, again and again. It's a challenge for those few who can comprehend the math.
But, to attribute such things to some supernatural deity that cannot even be described? C'est pour rire!
God did it is not an answer. It is an excuse for failing to understand. I don't accept excuses.
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a software program for Windows 3.1. The program let users design and print business cards on Avery and other brands of card stock that was pre-perforated for easy separation into individual cards. I knew the exact dimensions of the card stock, which were used in the software coding, to create the printed result. The design, of course, showed on the computer monitor, in perfect scale and with all the images and fonts and colors, etc. That was easy.
But, there was a problem with the printer business. Every printer company had to write printer drivers that worked with Windows 3.1, and later versions. They weren't always perfect, those drivers. The card stock, however, was very precisely laid out, within .001". There was no way, in Windows, to determine the quirks of those printer drivers, which meant that the designs might be off center on the cards by as much as .15 inches. That's quite visible in the printed card. Not acceptable.
Since I had no way to know what printers my potential customers might have, it was a problem that demanded a solution. Microsoft was no help at all, since they didn't create the printer drivers. So what's a software designer and coder to do?
Fudge factors. There was a menu item labeled "Fudge Factor" under "Format" on the software interface. In the program's manual and in a dialog box, I instructed users to first print an alignment page on plain paper and then hold that against the card stock with a light behind the two. Then, they measured the offset from perfection and provided horizontal and vertical fudge factor numbers in 1/100s of an inch plus or minus. Once that was done, the software stored those numbers in the program's configuration file and reloaded it every time the program ran. The user only had to find and enter that fudge factor once, as long as they used the same printer.
Was that solution a kludge? it certainly was. But nobody ever complained about that. One they had done the alignment process, the program printed precisely aligned cards every time.
Perhaps that's all that's missing in the cosmology calculations. A constant that is the "fudge factor" for this particular universe. 
atheist in the Religion Group who writes under multiple screen names. Don't encourage him, please.
But, you're right. The tiny sliver of information that remains unknown keeps shrinking, doesn't it? Even if the geniuses working on that sliver actually solve their equations and learn the answer, some will say, "Yabbut, what about before that? Answer that question. God did it!"
