The idea that the material universe with it's laws, made itself, might just be wishful thinking too. never been seen before, even on a smaller scale.
I find it hard to believe too that the transition or change from nothing to something happened without energy or cause and after that change, it randomly decided to choose the drive (set of physical laws) and direction it did forming the universe . It is like playing the lottery with 6.02 x 10 23 different numbers and winning 6.02 x 10 24 times by chance if a person should live so long.
And then, another change from death (chemical molecules and laws of chemistry) to living organisms, all laws and systemic processes demonstrating faithful predictable conduct but evolving and or forming randomly without intelligence.
I have never seen anything like that in the "real world."