You have, I assume, heard of the Argument from First Cause? This dictates that the Universe needs a cause, and that cause is supposed to be God. Except, of course, that God then needs a cause, and so on and so forth... The resolution to this is, usually, to suppose that God itself is a self-causing cause, and thus the chain is broken.
All I am saying is that there's no reason not to stop one step earlier, and hold that the Universe is capable of creating itself. Since the Uncertainty Principle, coupled with other theories, provides a context in which that can occur, then it's not even unreasonable.
It's a bold step to call it "claptrap", considering that the philosophy, at least, has been offered up by Aristotle, Parmenides, Thomas Aquinas, Leibniz, etc. etc. None of them thought to stop one step earlier, but never mind.