There is no evidence that the TV program has any truth in it . If you follow physics, chemistry , math , and engineering , you will see that something starting from Zero or NOTHING can not possibly create anything at all . So going back to the start of life is a a good guide to the biggest mysteries of life . Those scientists who pretend to know , in fact they are only guessing .
Nothingness has its own power as a vacuum in a world of somethingness. The something always wants to rush into the nothing.
This can be seen as a product of the jittering particles which make up the something, but it can also be viewed as the vacuum storing up potential energy, much like a weight at a great height.
Since we live in a universe that now contains "something", it is impossible to know what laws exist in a state of complete "nothing". Your claims about first causality do not apply before there was anything. It could very well be, without violating any known laws, that the absence of "something" is an extremely powerful, unstable state. The result of this state is an onrush of "everything".
If so, this resolves all known creation paradoxes. Since the state of nothing does not have time, the creation of everything occurred at some discrete point, and has been winding down ever since.
Gods do NOT avoid this paradox, and therefore can not be the answer. I am eager for other ideas, so if you come up with any please share them with me.