The question of what existed before the creation of the world has troubled philosophers and scientists for thousands of years. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) allows us to gather, compare, and explain different theories—religious, mythological, and scientific—to offer a vision of that mysterious "before." Far from a single answer, what emerges is a mosaic of interpretations that agree on one thing: the origin was not necessarily absolute nothingness, but a previous state difficult to imagine with the current rules of the universe. Read also: What will the world be like in the year 2100: the AI's answer will leave you speechless. What was there before the creation of the world: the chaos exposed by the Bible. One of the most influential accounts comes from Genesis. In its original Hebrew version, the state prior to creation is described with the expression Tohu va-Vohu. This concept does not point to a total void, but to a condition of disorder and absence of form. According to this interpretation, before the world there existed a kind of chaotic matter: a dark, unstructured environment covered by deep waters known as Tehom, a symbol of the abyss. There was no light or dry land, only a liquid expanding in darkness. In that scenario, the only active element was the Ruach Elohim, the divine spirit that moved upon the waters. Creation, then, does not arise from anything, but from the organization of that initial chaos through the word of God. Ancient myths and different versions of the same beginning. AI also offers answers that come from ancient cultures, where the idea of ??a previous disordered state is repeated with its own nuances. In Mesopotamia, for example, the universe was born from the mixture of two primordial waters: Apsu (fresh water) and Tiamat (salt water). Before creation, everything was an indistinct mass until a conflict between gods rose to heaven and earth. In Greek mythology, the starting point is Chaos, understood as a dark and open void. From that chasm emerged the first fundamental entities, such as Earth, night, and love, which would later shape the cosmos. In Egypt, the origin was placed in Nun, an infinite, motionless,and dark ocean that contained the potential of all that exists. Creation began when the first piece of land emerged, where the gods could act. The current scientific view on the beginning of the world: From a scientific perspective, the most widely accepted theory is the Big Bang, which posits that the universe rose approximately 13.8 billion years ago from an extremely dense and hot state. However, the question of what existed "before" remains open. Some hypotheses suggest that time itself began with the Big Bang, which would imply that there is no "before" in conventional terms.

Other theories speak of cyclical universes, multiverses, or quantum fluctuations in an energetic vacuum.

Artificial intelligence, in analyzing these proposals, identifies a common point with ancient accounts: the existence of a prior state, whether chaos, energy, or potential, from which order emerges.

Although the explanations vary, they all seek to answer the same human question. For its part, the Bible speaks of chaos organized by the divine, that is, a creator God.