When debating the beginning of the universe, many often hide behind the infamous infinite regress idea. In other words, in order to explain the existence of the world by positing a “maker” raises the question of how to explain the existence of the maker. If another maker is posited, the question becomes, “Who made the maker?” And so on, or “ad nauseam,” whichever comes first.

My response to the very first cause of the cosmos? Just pull Lennon’s creatio ex nihilo (creation out of nothing) argument:

“Before Elvis, there was nothing.” — John Lennon