  Positing initial low entropy for the Big Bang gives rise to its own set of “philosophical” questions: Given the standard probabilities in which high entropy is overwhelmingly probable, how could we explain the radically “unexpected” low entropy of the initial state? Indeed, can we apply probabilistic reasoning appropriate for systems in the universe as we know it to an initial state for the universe as a whole? The issues here are reminiscent of the old debates over the teleological argument for the existence of God.