The Big Bang/Singularity is not the origin of the Universe, it is merely one end of it.
The multiverse theory is the only attractive alternative to answering the question of the First Cause without invoking the supernatural because the beginning of this universe could have spawned out of the death throes of a Big Crunch in an alternate universe. But it does still delay the inevitable question of causation. And there is no way, thus far, to answer that with veracity.
The Universe is not 'made of energy' in the way that oceans are not 'made of waves'.
The singularity is the breakdown in the physics of classical General Relativity at T=0 in the Big Bang cosmology.
Strictly, the singularity does not exist as it is simply the artifact of inapplicable mathematics (as quantum General Relativity is required at this point.)
Colloquially, the singularity refers to the ultra-dense, ultra-hot state around T=0 (up to say T=10^-43 secs), and all evidence points to this very much existing.
Whether or not T=0 represents the lowest bound on T is very much work in progress.
God is not a singularity, unless you want to redefine 'singularity' to mean 'that which is God', and then it no longer has any meaning in mathematics/physics.
If we understand singularity to be the nanoseconds prior to Planck's Time, where energy was infinitesimal, then we still are dealing with why and how something -- anything -- can come from absolute nothingness.
Some people tend to dismiss the question, possibly because of their philosophical implications, and choosing rather to minimize it. They end up saying things like, science is only interested in what we can know. But that us patently false, or at least misleading. The how and why is the only thing science is concerned with. For instance, we already knew that what comes up must come down. What we wanted to know, was how and why.
This is precisely why questions of origin are so appealing to so many people. Its a fascinating subject. The only problem is that even in our advanced technological state, we are still as clueless to answering that questions now than when we first started asking it.
Therefore there is no North Pole.
The Hawking solution, which seems to be just pretend that such a question about the singularity is immaterial, is begging the question.
If one cannot go beyond the North Pole, it doesn't negate what North means
in relation to the laws of physics. Likewise, just because the singularity seems to be the advent of physical law itself, wondering what its cause is does not detract from its greater context, IMO.
“There is something which unites magic and applied science while separating both from the 'wisdom' of earlier ages. For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution had been knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men: the solution is a technique; and both, in the practice of this technique, are ready to do things hitherto regarded as disgusting and impious" -C.S. Lewis
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