In God We Trust. But Can We Reason?

Artificial intelligence can write poetry. Telescopes can peer billions of years into the past. Scientists can reconstruct the universe's earliest observable stages with astonishing precision.

Surely, in 2026, we should have outgrown the need for God?

Not so fast. For all our scientific brilliance, one rather inconvenient question refuses to disappear.

Why is there something rather than nothing?

Not how the Earth formed. Not how galaxies emerged. Not even what happened shortly after the Big Bang. Why does anything exist at all?

It sounds almost childish. Yet some of history's greatest minds have struggled with precisely this question. And science, for all its achievements, has not settled it.

Houston, We Still Have a Question

Around 13.8 billion years ago, our observable universe was extraordinarily hot and dense. Space expanded, galaxies formed, and eventually a small planet produced creatures capable of debating existence on Facebook.

Quite an achievement.

The evidence for the Big…