Scott, if we're a simulation or maybe things are not the religious model. Didn't there have to be an intelligence that kicked it all off? To which I say, no. And then they say, "Oh, but there had to be something that was there first and it had to be an intelligence, right? Otherwise, we couldn't get to where we are now." And then I say, "No." And they say, "Well, explain that." And I think, "I don't have to explain it. I can just say no." But if you'd like a little bit more, here are the possibilities.

One is that time is a complete illusion. If time is an illusion and everything is just sort of here or some other version of it just time is an illusion then there's no such thing as something that started it all because time is an illusion. The other possibility is that we create the past. We don't just come from it. So it could be that we're creating the past actively. That takes a little more explaining, but that's another way that it didn't have to be an original cause. And my favorite is that time is circular, meaning that let's say there was a big bang, but everything expands, eventually everything will come back together and it will just happen again. And that everything that is possible will eventually happen. So you wouldn't need a beginning with that model because it would just be infinite. How about