I don't think the world or the universe or time or space or life or us were created. Nor was there any purpose. And there might never have been such a thing as Nothing, although Stephen Hawking explains how particles/waves can spontaneously come into existence in his book The Grand Design, and Lawrence Krauss has also written a book called A Universe From Nothing.
The universe formed following expansion and opening up of some spatial dimensions; and research is seeking answers about how the universe was some billionths of a second after the "big bang", notably the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. We might have to continue to have the humility to admit that we don't know everything for a very long time - perhaps forever; and I prefer this instead of hanging onto the kind of pride that won't admit we don't know it all and invokes supernatural beings, which I don't consider plausible. We're part of the universe.
So our mental and instinctual mapping of reality, without special equipment and the benefit of theory and the higher mathematics employed by quantum physicists, would necessarily appear ordered; because we’re in the environment where we can be. The Prima Mobile or First Cause goes back at least to 13th Century Theology, such as Summa Theologica by Tomaso Aquino (St Thomas Aquinas) who said something like everything needs a cause until you trace all causes back to the first cause that needs no cause, and we call that God. It seems to have been thought up to reflect Isaiah 57:15, and perhaps Plato and Aristotle.
To me the logic is fatally flawed - it assumes that despite all things needing a cause, there is an unexplained exception. Some also seem to have the concept that there's such a thing as "outside space and time". Whether that can be explained in objective terms seems doubtful.
It also seems to be meaningless. They also seem to think that the "big bang" needed a cause outside of itself, without considering what that means in theory and mathematically or whether it actually has any real meaning. We probably all have the same sense of awe and wonder, since we're part of the same species.
I just don't project that onto a mythical supernatural being. Update: There's no such thing as "one secon d before the big bang". Time started when expansion began.
Stephen Hawking says that asking "what happened ... before the big bang" is like asking "What's further north than the North Pole?".
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.