If the total energy of the universe must always remain zero, and it costs energy to create a body, how can a whole universe be created from nothing?

A person who smiles in the face of adversity...probably has a scapegoat.

The universe and the Laws of Physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist: Either atoms would not be stable, or they wouldn't combine into molecules, or the stars wouldn't form heavier elements, or the universe would collapse before life could develop, and so on...

So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely self-contained, it would have neither beginning or end, it would simply be. What place then for a creator?

The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.

Although I cannot move, and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind, I am free.

We are only the temporary custodians of the particles which we are made of. They will go on to lead a future existence in the enormous universe that made them