Nothingness

 I believe, "In the beginning God" (Genesis 1:1). There really is no other option. The universe sprang into existence from nothing? Nothing. Like the black box pictured above? There is no such thing as nothing. It can't be black, it can't be empty, or go on and on and on--those things are all part of the existing universe. Nothing is a concept, like evolution beginning with the Big Bang fantastically growing from hot hydrogen to helium to all the other elements, and even more fantastically producing life and eventually us. Producing us who create art and music and prose. All from nothing? Nothing is a concept like evolution existing only in the mind. "In the beginning God" comes to us from time immemorial, from the beginning, words at first probably passed on orally (like Kunta Kinte's African lineage), then written in Hebrew, the ancient text. "In the beginning God."