The causes of that information are the Big Bang
For those interested, assuming the theory of the big bang has validity, that the universe began with a singularity does not explain what followed.
Here’s a fun video describing how science understands cause and effect:
A point it makes early on is that the laws of physics don’t care about the direction of time at a fundamental particle level. The direction of time occurs when dealing with complex systems, like a glass of milk falling and shattering on the floor. In a determined universe, although one can’t go back in time, there still remains no cause and effect because everything happens as it is suppose to happen. What appears random, is actually the result of numerous changing factors, all part of part of an underlying order, coming together to give an only statistically predictable result each time.
What we have then in the big bang is a direction from the initial singularity to where we find ourselves here thinking about the nature of what this all is. We can go back only in describing what would have happened from the remnants that remain of the event in the present and knowing how things work now. So we believe that there was a time when there were no atoms and everything was an orange unformed plasma.
The issue as to how that changed can be understood as an evolution, the belief that the laws of physics are eternal and played themselves out, causing the expansion of time-space and the cooling that resulted in the formation of hydrogen, from more elementary subatomic particles. This would be a naturalistic, perhaps pantheistic belief.
The other view is that of creation. Each step along the way to the formation of the universe the way it is, had to be brought into existence. There is a step-wise creation of new types of being, new information given existence, utilizing the information that already had been created from the first moment. This of course would involve a belief in a transcendent god, who is other to his creation, which we find in Deism and in our understanding of God, who participates in His creation, to the point that He became one of us that we might know Him and enter into communion within the Trinity.
Of course, science appears to be incapable of telling us which one of these scenarios is true. As we have determined its scope through the measures it employs, it can only try to approximate, from the remnants of the past that remain, what happened in the past. There are huge gaps that it cannot fill and the facts are brought together through assumptions based on what we know.
In both these cases the cause lies outside the appearance, which is understood as either the expression of eternal laws of nature or of a transcendent Cause, who wills into existence those laws, inherent in the events that constitute the universe.
