[One_source_one_outcome]

Yeah, the problem with "energy cannot be created or destroyed but only transfered" is what was there before energy? I guess there are two ways you can look at that... energy always was and always will be or there was a point in time when there was nothing and then a great amount of energy was created. It seems to me that if there was a singularity prior to the big bang that had that much energy stored in one space it could not have existed like that for more than the smallest fraction of a second. So either the universe is close ended (will eventually collapse back to the singularity for another big bang) or the matter/energy was somehow created there.... by what is to me something i like to think about a great deal.