Keith&Co.
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But it does depend on 'who gave it to us.'If the point of the universe is to give us a place to live, regardless of who gave it to us, it's not a good way to go about it.
If the 'who' is a monotheistic god, it has to be internally consistent.
If the 'who' is a pantheon of gods, it may make more sense. If the universe is the product of some competitive assholes, like, say, Loki, or most of the Greeks, the original plan may have been for a small place. One world, a few lights in the sky (moon and sun for light, stars for signs and portents), a flat Earth with everything visible from Olympus...
But after someone bragged about how well his fjords came out, someone else was challenged to expand on his area and made 8 other planets. Then some other asshole created the Oort cloud... Something humans wouldn't even find for a few millennia, but looked SPIFFY to the other gods...
Then after a few rounds of competitive one-up-god-ship, we get a universe of infinite extent, wonders and marvels stretching as far as the (immortal) eye can see, with humans mostly forgotten except in the documentation for the original project... But no one besides Vulcan, The Judge, or Ptah care about the original project. They're busy wearing lamp shades as hats while they fuck around with details. "And one planet rotating BACKWARDS!"
"Hey! Look at how exentricks... Extendtric... Expendtrix... weird THIS orbit is!"
But hardly anyone seems to whip out the FTA to prove pagan gods...