In my opinion, it doesn’t matter (no pun intended). I don’t think it will happen in my lifetime but I believe science and faith in a Creator will become, if not two parts of a whole universe, at least adjacent.

Ever notice how, when a new slice of knowledge is ‘found’, it immediately results in two separate and opposed factions? Why does humanity react that way? Because somewhere in there is profit and power. Because humans do not relinquish profit or power readily.

“New discoveries” are often NOT new. They have been knocking around for years. Decades. Centuries. Science in many disciplines are as hidebound as religions, and for the same reasons. Power. Profit. Control. White-bearded science professors battle fiercely at any suggestion they may have been wrong. White-bearded religious leaders do the same.

Some glad morning, we will comprehend that science learns and teaches about processes and constructs while faith explains the purpose and meaning.

Or something along those lines.

I believe nothing's impossible. If nothing was possible, where would it exist? It would have to be somewhere, not nowhere. Even if we were just a point before, points having no dimension, it's still something. It's not nothing

It was probably created from the previous Universe.

The supposed idea is prior to the universe there must have been a super massive, very dense, incredibly hot physical object which for reasons we don’t yet know, collapsed and exploded, creating the big bang.

It could have been a structure like a star. But at this point in time we honestly don’t know.

Not strictly, because your definition of nothing isn’t true “nothingness.”

no one alive was around when it happened...research the original hebrew text on youtube

If a creator created it, where did that creator come from? Then, why can the answer to that not simply be applied to the universe instead, thus cutting out the middle man?

Where does it say it has to be a cycle?

No human is capable of understanding the full extent of the universe. This is why humans created religion as a way to 'explain away' that which cannot be explained.

Remember that science knowledge keeps expanding and religion isn't science. Science also isn't actually science when commercial interests get involved. Religion is effectively a 'commercial interest' used by governments to 'control' and 'limit' how much (and how fast) true science can discover about the universe and our place as humans in it.