Look around you. Trees. Stars. Oceans. Butterflies and Bumblebees. Your own hands. The world is full of amazing things. But have you ever stopped and wondered: where did all of this come from?
Imagine you're walking in the forest and you find a brand-new bicycle leaning against a tree. Would you think, "Wow, that bicycle just appeared out of nowhere"?
Of course not! You'd think: someone made this and left it here.
That's because you know that things like bicycles don't just show up by themselves. Someone had to design them, build them, and put them together.
Now think about something way more amazing than a bicycle: a butterfly. A butterfly starts as a tiny egg, turns into a caterpillar, wraps itself in a cocoon, and comes out with wings covered in thousands of tiny colorful scales. It can fly. It can find flowers from miles away. It can migrate thousands of miles without a map.
A butterfly is more complicated than any bicycle ever made. So if a bicycle needs a maker... what about a butterfly?
Your brain has about 86 billion nerve cells - and every single one is connected to thousands of others. That's more connections than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Your brain is the most complicated thing scientists have ever studied. And it grew from a single tiny cell. Who wrote the instructions for that?
Scientists have discovered that the universe - everything that exists: all the stars, all the planets, all of space - had a beginning. They call it the Big Bang. Before that moment, there was no space, no time, no matter. Nothing.
Here's the big question: if everything that's made has a maker, who made the universe?
Whatever caused the universe to exist must be really, really powerful - powerful enough to create everything. And it must exist outside the universe, because it created the universe.
That sounds a lot like what people call God.
"If God made everything, who made God?"
Here's the key: only things that start existing need a maker. A bicycle started existing when someone built it. The universe started existing at the Big Bang. But God didn't start existing - God has always been there. He's the one thing that doesn't need a maker, because He never began. He's the first domino that was always there.
If everything that begins to exist has a maker, and the universe began to exist, what does that tell us?