I’m not asking you to accept my position because of authority. I am making my position based upon what we know about the universe.Says you, with no good evidence, because faith has destroyed a large part of your brain.That the only possible explanation for something which exists outside of space and time and that can be eternal and unchanging is something like consciousness without form.
So, you surely can understand why someone would not simply accept your authoritative, mentally ill nonsense.
Which is that it literally popped into existence 14 billion years ago from nothing.