Quote Originally Posted by Tulmane
... Did you even read my although lengthy, extremely informative paragraph there? I kind of just explained that, as far as science is concerned, as of the moment...
OK what she meant was how did the first of these single atoms come to be? What you explained was the big bang theory which says that this single atom exploded. Yes one will have come from the previous Universe according to both you and me, but what seh asked was how did the first of these atoms come to be.

This we can never tell as we were never there at the time.