It’s important to note that before the universe was formed, there was nothing - no time, space, or physical substance. There was nothing available to be formed into anything. We material beings, living in a material world, find this virtually impossible to imagine, but this concept is agreed upon by scientists throughout the word. This concept has profound implications:
Because the beginning of the universe was also the beginning of time, space and matter, whatever or whoever created the universe must exist outside of time, space, and matter.
The word for this is “transcendent,” which is defined as “beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience.”