Quote: How can the universe exist? It had to have been created, for instance by God.
Don't go there. Many will argue that the universe didn't have to be created by anyone, but rather appeared by chance or [fortunate?] accident.
Our ablility to intuitively grasp the world has evolved for "human scale" phenomena, in terms of size, time, energy scale... Very few people can visualize quantum- or cosmic-scale reality (I certainly can't), although we can describe them mathematically to a certain extent. Questions like "how was the Universe created", and certailny the answer that God did that are hopelesly anthopocentrically parochial, so to speak. It's like a termite searching a skyscraper for a giant queen, because the only structure it knows is a termite colony*. According to the best we currently know about the Universe, the question "what was there before the Universe" is meaningless, and the statement that God created the world has equal information content as any other "creation proposition": zero.
*) Jeff is right: analogies are not that good argument vehicles
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