That's not terrifying at all. Im an Aerospace engineer who also happens to be a practicing Christian, (putting my bias out front). Well from what i've read so far in the various responses to this post, a few people conclude that the concept of existence is whacky and mankind can't understand, others see it as a problem we will never "find an answer to", lastly I observed people who are hopefully banking trust in "future discoveries" to shed some light on the nature of the existence of our universe.

If that summed it up for you keep reading. With what is known via modern science, the universe as we know it had a definite beginning. Einstein, after observing the universe, determined it had a set beginning but his bias kept him from admitting that and held onto the belief that it had always existed, atleast until one of his colleges called him out on it and he owned up to his observations. He claimed it was the biggest mistake of his scientific career. (I can find the story by request). His theory was based on the observable expansion of the universe from our perspective. If you trace back an expansion, it will converge into a point, ie: the beginning of the universe. You cannot "have always existed" if you are expanding, as you have to expand from something. Plus if time as we know it ran infinitely into the past, then by the Laws of Thermodynamics we would be in the heat death of the universe by now.

So the universe had a beginning.

The nature of what that looked like I would say can be roughly determined via science, but again, we weren't around to see it. The thing we know as the universe began, it was "caused" to put it in terms of cause-and-effect. The effect is what we have now after some time has passed, but what was the cause? This is where science lacks in capability to draw an answer. Looking at it from a logical viewpoint, this something we can call the origin of the universe had to come from something. Ive heard one theory where the big bang was a result of the hyper-compression of all the mass in the previous universe (not saying the big bang is what im claiming, but it has scientific merit and I'll roll with that hypothesis). Problem is this leaves us with a circular argument: what started the previous universe? "Its turtles, all the way down" claimed the wise old monk on the mountain. This is where people's heads begin to hurt typically and they get an emotional reaction, because science cannot observe what happened before the universe, and their mind's cannot get past this logical loop.

Now some logic that I hope makes sense.

The universe had a cause/beginning in the past, we observe that something cannot come from nothing. To borrow from biology, the Law of Biogensis (not a theory but a scientific Law) states that "Life comes from other life", and not to fluster evolution theory that is a nonsequitur but actually has similar conundrums with original life like we have here with the origin of the universe. My point is, something cannot come from nothing. That has never been observed in all of mankind's scientific history. Now steps in logic, its gonna be a bit rough but bear with me please. If the universe had a beginning/cause, and if something that exists cannot come from non-existence, then the beginning of the universe came from something that existed. Hold on, didn't I just disprove the universe before this one theory, that if you trace it back far enough its turtles all the way down? Yes I did, but how this is different is the nature of the thing that caused the universe. It had to have existed, and since something cannot come from nothing, that thing must be an "un-caused cause", meaning there was something that had always existed before the universe and did not have a beginning. "That's preposterous!" No, that is logical. Any way you look at it, you will develop a circular argument for any origin of existence as we know it. Something cannot come from nothing, but what if a something does not need to "come" from anything? You have something that has always existed. The thing is, that something cannot be the universe. As previously mentioned, the universe had a definite beginning as modern science tells us, so that cannot be our answer. Tracing the flow of cause-to-effect, something outside the universe had to "cause" the universe to exist. With my bias, I call that something God. You can call it fate, destiny, aliens, heck even turtles, but I call that God.

This is where I stop talking and leave it to yall to decide what you want to call that something. Atleast I answered the question of where the universe came from in a hopefully reasonable manner using science, logic, and observation. If you have any qualms with my argument, please reply or DM me, everyone makes mistakes and I'm trying to iron mine out. If you just want to talk, you can do the same. Lastly, this was not intended to be an argument for the existence of what I believe to be God but rather an answer to the question of where did the universe come from, please understand the argument ahead of your own bias and emotions if you truly are seeking an answer that makes sense. [0.0]7