The 'nothing'ness before 'life' from which we supposedly spring. If it's nothing, then nothing is something! If it was truly nothing, then nothing would have happened.

See also
Sam Harris: The Paradox of Death
Iain McGilchrist: Matter and Consciousness

Harris is no religionist, he was one of 'The Four Horsemen' of the New Atheism, and McGilchrist shares the thoughts on consciousness of the pre-eminent scientists of the 20th century.