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The latter, since there are no Garden of Eden patterns in physics. (I'm not sure how the Big Bang fits in.)
There is such a world, with unfathomably tiny measure (and a tiny portion of your and my measure is in that world*). Or, rather, there is an ensemble of such worlds, that came into being in different ways. I suspect the overwhelmingly vast majority (by measure) involve local "gods", but a small portion do arise through pure coincidence.
*If you consider "William Tanksley" to refer to "the set of all processes implementing William Tanksley's conscious experience", as I do.