If mathematics is eternal and outside of time, you don’t need a creator to begin things. The equations of mathematics are truly outside the universe, so they could play the role of something supernatural and godlike. It is not, however, a God that acts in the world, because this is a deistic vision. The interesting question is then: how many different ways are there to set up a universe out of a set of mathematical equations? The multiverses now arise from multi-mathematical models.
