It's neither a copout nor an escape.
But here, let's turn the argument around.
What created the emu?

Momma emu. And what created the first emu? Ultimately the atmosphere of the Earth.
And what created the Earth? The circumstances of the nearby planets of your solar system.
And what created the solar system? The galaxy. The universe.
What created that? Physical laws that govern matter.
Wait, how did the physical laws happen without a place (the universe) to manifest? How did the place (the universe) exist without physical laws to determine things like time and space? Without when and where, nothing exists. And without a cause, we're back to nothing existing never in nowhere.
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Looks like we're back to God. The same God who doesn't need physical laws in order to exist. He just is.
Big bang > Universe > big crunch > ball of everything > big bang. Repeat forever.
Whereas your ball of everything needs the addition of energy to grow up to be a big bang. Otherwise, ball of compressed matter continues to be a ball of compressed matter.

This ball of compressed paper could expand outward, if a flame and gunpowder were applied. Otherwise, it sits. And sits. Until your universe model likewise crumbles into a ball of everything. But no, the universe is designed in a way that compressed objects expand outward when they build up critical energy.
Why is it designed that way?
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Looks like we're back to God. Where entropy loses and energy wins, even though there ought to be a net loss of energy in the universe.
This is, again, a cop out. The forever "later". A way to justify why something is or isn't happening without having to explain anything.
Have you noticed that things appear to be happening now?