[Fungi]

” In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Stop at the fourth word: “In the beginning God....” It is all there, a God transcending time and space; if there was no God, nothing could have come later—no universe, no creation, no matter, nothing. See it in its context. As for me, I thank God every day with all my heart, soul, strength, and mind. Thank you Lord, I wonder and take joy in your creation, from the smallest insect, to the flower and the most beautiful of fungi, thank you Lord for all your beauty you have given me the privilege to experience.

[TBP]

If all there was was god, then God had nothing out of which to create the Universe but God. It is, essentially, God’s great idea.

So an eternal universe shows the eternality of That Which Thought Up the Universe. And that, whatever name we give it, is God.