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I disagree with this explanation.

first of all i think Donnie had to die by the engine to save the universe. i am citing the other two occurrences mentioned in the movie. the man dying by a sword and a Mayan dying by a spear.
The point is both men are dead. there is no story that a random object just "appeared" but in both instances the men were killed.

Also, it sounds like you are implying frank is god. God is His own character. frank cannot be god because frank was a human "granted" 4th dimensional abilities. this may make him a godlike figure but not god himself. I don't know if you were implying that but there you go.

God is not the space/time entity either. When Donnie is talking to his teacher about time travel Donnie asks if wormholes could appear in nature and the teacher replies "that is highly unlikely you're talking about an act of god". The fact of the matter is God created the tangent universe. So using the writer of this page's metaphor about the human body - if god were space/time then why would he harm himself. that would be like a human giving himself a deadly disease and trying to get people to fix it. Its illogical.

God is his own character, the one who put the entire 28 days in to motion.

So that begs the question why did god create the tangent universe? well we have to look at Donnie. Donnie himself does not believe in god yet he does not rule god out as a possibility. Donnie is an agnostic. God created the tangent universe for Donnie. Why? So that Donnie would see that god exists and he would not have to die alone. So as Donny's final act he sat in bed laughing because he knows that the second that jet engine crashes through the roof of his bedroom he will be united with god and the primary universe will be saved.