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Sherlock Holmes wrote: “If it’s OK to posit that the laws of physics gave rise to the universe without knowing where the laws came from why is it not OK to posit a non-material creative agency without knowing where that came from?
Can you really not see the fallacies in your position here?”

It’s not a fallacy at all.  In the one case, you are simply recognizing that the universe is in fact governed by certain physical constants.  We do not even have to ask “where they came from” because the universe evidently could not exist as it does without them.

In the other case, you are postulating a “non-material, creative agency” which apparently has intelligence, able to think ahead and make plans.  If not intelligent, how can it have creativity?  You are certainly free to imagine such a thing if you like, but I think the point Lausten is making is that you haven’t answered the original question.  “You can’t solve a complex problem by proposing something just as complex as the solution.”