[Palisades]

Where was it before that?

It could have been nowhere. Our limited simian minds may be incapable of grasping certain facts of universal history. It's a mistake to assume that we are capable of understanding everything in the universe.

What was there before that?

Nothing, maybe.

[Recon Dad]

Not to continue this ad infinitum, but nothing is nothing so the only thing to come out of nothing is more of the same. I don't claim extraordinary understanding, but there has to be a source of your nothing, if you care to start there.