<p>I don’t believe in a supreme being, but I won’t rule out a higher power. I’m also anti-religious and pro-belief. </p>
<p>However, I do think that something can come from nothing. Humans are incredibly concrete, finite beings. Think about it this way: say the human lifespan is 100 years. So when a fly lives for only twenty-four hours, we think wow, that’s really short! And then we think of a turtle or an oak tree, and we’re like, wow, that’s a long time! Now imagine that life in a galaxy far far away lives for 1,000,000,000,000 years. To them, 100 years is barely the blink of an eye. They’d say wow, how do they live their life in that span of time? Time is relative.</p>
<p>So, by default, our concept and understanding of time is limited. Now, let’s talk about space. Space is probably infinite. What is infinite? It’s nothing something you can really imagine. You can think about it deeply, and you can be awe-inspired by it, but it’s not something you can grasp - that’s the point. That’s especially true for non-science humans like me, who can hardly grasp the distance from here to the sun and probably don’t think about it on a daily basis. I don’t know what’s happening 1000 miles from my home. What’s happening 1000 universes from here? Is the space empty or full? This is another concept that humans can’t imagine, and no amount of science is ever going to explore the depths of infinity. It’s impossible by definition: humans are limited.</p>
<p>Thirdly, in the human world, we only study and witness those interactions which we can see, feel, hear, taste, smell, witness, interpret, study, and put away for future understanding. Something has to come from something else because that’s how it works on earth. How could something just appear? I say, why not? Humans are so finite and limited that we believe everything must have a beginning and an ending. What if the world - the universe - space - was already HERE? Who’s to say two particles had to magically appear - what if they have always been here? This is difficult to grasp, given human limits. It would be difficult for me to understand. But who’s to say the universe had to “start?” I say, it was already here. It has been for an infinite amount of time, evolving over hundreds of billions of trillions of millions of septillion of years - spans of time that can’t even be measured with a human system because there is NO BEGINNING.</p>
<p>Because humans can’t fully grasp infinity (and neither can I, but I can talk about the concept), we have to make up something that helps us to explain how everything started and how everything will end. Thousands of years ago they made up stories about fertility and the flooding of the Nile; they attributed Gods to it. Eventually we’ll know more and more, but what it comes down to is that we won’t be able to explain something that goes beyond the scope of our understanding: infinity. Some say God made the world. I ask, how did God get here? If God has always been here, why couldn’t the world have always been here?</p>