Option 1
Now God had been around for an awful long time – forever in
fact. And God was surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. One day God said to
himself – or herself, or itself – ‘I’m sick and tired of all this nothing. I
think I’ll make something’. So God thought for a few more eons of time and
finally said, ‘Let there be a universe’, and bang, there it was.
Option 2
Now Nothing had been around for an awful long time – forever
in fact. And one day Nothing said to itself ‘I’m tired of being nothing, I think
I’ll make something of myself.’ So Nothing thought for a few more eons of time
– not that nothing had anything to think with – and finally said, ‘I’ll make
myself into a universe’, and bang, there it was.
Option 3
Well that’s it folks. It’s either option 1 or 2. Both
unprovable. Both untestable by any scientific process. Both sound illogical and
irrational. Unless you’re into some sort of philosophy that says the universe
has been around forever. But contemporary science says that it had a beginning.
And if it has always been here the question then is – ‘How did it get here?’
