DarkDespair5 Posted:

If we do not know how the universe was formed, how can we explicitly deny the existence of an entity that could form it?

Ontology. That is: the nature of being. Being only makes sense within the universe. The universe is the framework for existence itself, so it can’t not exist. It is the ontological ground. To say that the universe was created is to beg the question of existence apart from the universe. Fallacies kill arguments.