The universe is too perfect to just come about by any kind of random actions. The idea of a pre-existing matrix from which the universe emerged is not the beginning of the universe. This would just a mark a phase of the universe becoming. The statisitical probability that the universe just appeared by itself is a virtual zero. I have worked out the probability and there is just no way it could occur randomly, no matter what some would prefer. Science is not based upon taboos, just observations and data. If it is taboo to say that there was a pattern to which the universe complied then science is wrong as this is the only true explanation, If that requires a God for some people's minds, then that is for them to analyze. The universe came from nothing. There was nothing before. There was no space, or time. That is all we know. All the rest is speculation and has no place in science. All the other explanations require paramters for which we have no supporting observational evidence.