"Aside from the fact that this theory only raises more questions such as how did the creator came into existence, it also doesn't really make the creator very powerful. He only had to "pull the switch" which would "start off" the universe. From that point on everything would only follow the laws of physics and the universe became more and more complicated. So if that's the creator you believe exists, you might as well ignore him and get on with your life."
--Doesn't make him very powerful, that is, if you believe in a deistic God, which I do not, and it is a matter of opinion (as is analogous to your stament that the creator is not very powerful), here is a little bit and it is also a bit appealing to those of the ID argument:
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Second, why is it that the universe is so near the critical rate of expansion? To see what this means imagine you had a machine which made universes.
On this machine you would have two dials. One dial would control the expansion force of the Big Bang. The other would control gravity, the force which pulls everything back together. Set the dials to whatever you wanted and out would come a universe. After a few billion attempts you would find it to be a very boring experiment! In fact in order to get a universe which would produce carbon-based life those two dials need to be set quite precisely. If you set the gravitational force too high, then the universe would appear but within a microsecond gravity would pull everything back together into the opposite of a Big Bang, a Big Crunch! If you set the expansion rate too high, then the universe would expand at such a rate that gravity would be unable to form stars and galaxies. In fact in order to get a structure within the universe these dials need to be balanced to within one part in 1060(1 followed by sixyty zeros!). In Paul Davies' words, that is the same accuracy as shooting a target 1 centimetre square on the other side of the universe -- and hitting it!
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