Because the universe has many possible histories and just as many possible beginnings, the present state of the universe selects the past. (discovermagazine.com)
The early states of the universe are to be explained by the fact that they made subsequent states possible. (religion-online.org)
An observer standing outside, however, has what is seemingly the opposite problem: What happens along such a curve can not be uniquely predicted from the prior state of the universe. (discovermagazine.com)