If you have a few minutes to spare, let’s spend some time together pondering the Kalam Cosmological Argument, which states: “Everything that has a beginning has a cause.”

Let me give you a moment to take that in.

From this springs the idea that the Big Bang is not the beginning of the universe, just the current boundary of our rearward knowledge.

As we have been taught, the Big Bang marked the release of an inconceivable amount of pure energy, enough to form the now-still-expanding universe, not just its materiality (billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, many with orbiting space junk like our planet), but also void space itself, whose immensity cannot be held by thought.

It’s fascinating and mind-boggling to ask: What was that inconceivable amount of pure energy doing the day before the Big Bang? After all, assuming the Big Bang was a temporal event, the clock must have been ticking earlier.

What was it? Where was it? Remember: As far as we know, something doesn’t come from nothing.

Pre-Bang, how much room did the universe occupy? I don’t say “how much space” because it appears the Big Bang itself created space. And if there wasn’t........

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