Scholar Declares If God Did Not Exist Universe Would Not Exist

What was said

"If God didn't exist, there'd be nothing. We wouldn't be here arguing about it. There would be no universe in which we could even discuss the meaning of things or whether they have a meaning or anything like that."

When asked whether nihilism would logically follow if God did not exist, Dr. Budziszewski made the stronger claim that God's non-existence is metaphysically impossible—comparable to asking about a non-round circle. He argued that without God as first cause and first meaning, no subsequent meanings, inferences, or even the universe itself could exist, positioning atheism as fundamentally incoherent.