This text was written in January 2014. I’ve recovered it today and thought it was good enough to post here. I expanded my opinion about this topic a year later, in February 2015, when I had an epiphany, and I will make another post next explaining my current position.
Before we even attempt to solve the problem of the creation of the universe, we must first take a closer look into the concept of creation. What does it mean to create? Is it possible to create something out of nothing? What do we exactly mean when we use this word? Strictly speaking, we never create anything; we only ever transform some things into other things. Physics has taught us that in this world nothing ever is truly created, but merely transformed. When we “create” a knife, for example, we are in fact simply transforming iron into the blade and wood into the handle, combining both materials to “create” the knife. In this so-called process of “creation”, nothing magically appeared out of nowhere: iron and wood were merely extracted from our environment and subsequently transformed according to our wishes into a “knife”. The same thing happens with all the stuff of the universe: rocks, trees, human beings, clouds, planets, molecules, etc. are always the result of transformation, not creation. What this means to us, then, is that the concept of creation at a higher level is strictly speaking meaningless. It’s an empty concept that corresponds to nothing real. We merely use it for the sake of convenience in our day-to-day conversations, as we do with so many other words. Plus, this word is no doubt a memento from our stupid ancestors who did not know better.
Returning to our initial question, we now realize how absurd it is to claim the universe was “created”. Was it perhaps transformed then? But transformed from what? The universe is everything, there is nothing besides it! Nothing could have “created” the universe, then, not even God! For even God is inside the universe. There is then only one final logical answer after recognizing this: the universe has always existed and will always exist.
Why does it exist? We cannot possibly grasp this. The best we can do is grasp how it works and nothing more.
The Stillest 