Is called the drunken intern theory. If we assume that life develops on even a small percentage of the small percentage planets that can be inhabited, then the likelihood of a range of intelligent life throughout the universe is quite probable.

The drunken intern theory posits that a new universe is formed when a drunken intern from one of the intelligent races in the old universe fiddles with the dials on the particle accelerator…. and makes a “big bang”.

This theory requires a lot of weird physics to be true, but if it is possible to blow up the universe with a particle accelerator; then the statistics would point to this being a virtually inevitable outcome. Which would lead to a negating of the first cause argument, as the universe is just the latest in an infinite line of universes.