First, we thought humanity was at the center of the universe. Then we thought that our solar system was everything that existed. Then we thought that earth was the only planet in the universe and later believed the earth was the only planet that could sustain life. Now, in keeping with human tendencies to see everything as revolving around humanity, we appear to have concluded that the universe and everything else started from nothing with a big bang roughly 14-billion years ago.
Empty space, as it turns out, isn’t so empty. The fluctuations in the vacuum of space itself mean that even if you take all the matter and radiation out of a region of space, there’s still a finite amount of energy there, inherent to space itself. So the idea that the big bang started from nothing or that the universe was created from nothing is yet another misconception underlying the biblical myth of creation.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_state
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2176738-weird-circles-in-the-sky-may-be-signs-of-a-universe-before-ours/?utm_medium=NLC&utm_source=NSNS&utm_campaign=NLC%7CNSNS%7C2018-0816-GLOBAL-NSNEW&utm_content=NSNEW
See: Conformal Cyclic Cosmology
