This has necessarily been a long chapter, but one last point needs to be squeezed in: where did material reality come from in the first place? We have tracked evolutionism back to an updated version of Darwin’s ‘warm little pond’—but where did the ‘pond’ come from? It is impossible to run any scientific programme that will show us how the universe began, but there seem to be just three possibilities: it is eternal; it was self-created; or it was brought into existence by a transcendent