For many, the relationship between science and religion might appear as settled matter. Science deals in evidence, religion in faith. As scientific knowledge advances, the space left for God appears to grow increasingly smaller... It is a familiar narrative. But is it necessarily a correct one?
We live in an age in which artificial intelligence can write poetry, telescopes can observe galaxies whose light has travelled for more than 13 billion years, and scientists are investigating the earliest moments of our universe. Surely, by now, we should have outgrown the need for God.
And yet, for all our extraordinary scientific achievements, there is one rather awkward question we still haven't managed to shake off. Why is there anything at all?
Not why the Earth exists. Or how the first stars formed. Or what happened shortly after the Big Bang. Why does anything exist in the first place? It sounds deceptively simple. Almost childish, even. Yet it is one of the oldest and most difficult ques...
