what was the universe like before god created it?

Answer 1

There was no "before" the Universe.

There is no evidence that there is any such thing as God.

That should just about cover it.

Ironvulcan: boy is THAT a load of lying creationist propaganda! NOTHING you said about Einstein, Darwin, "evolutionists," or "the evil Nietzsche" is true. Blatant lies, in God's name, are still blatant lies.

Answer 2

The book of Genesis actually is a good way to think of how everything came to be. There was nothing before the birth of the Universe, and then out of nothingness came everything that was, is and shall be. Before the Big Bang, time, space, matter, energy, stars, planets, galaxies and life did not exist at all.

Answer 3

Depends on how you define "God". I have always defined God as that which is responsible for the Universe and all that it includes. Whether intelligence is involved in that responsibility or not is subject to speculation and cannot be answered based on what is currently available from observation. Keep searching for the truth. Do not be misled by those who claim to know the answer but do not. Look at all the evidence and make your conclusions.

Answer 4

This sounds like a religious question, not a science question. You should have asked, what is beyond the boundary of the universe. Answer: we will never know because the universe is expanding at the speed of light.

Answer 5

There is not, especially in this case, any division in science and art. Science is, essentially, breaking that which is artistic into a system, a program, and making logical assumptions afterward.

Sodium and Chlorine; separately they are two toxic substances, together they form Sodium Chloride, or salt. Salt is edible, but arguably unhealthy.

Anyways, bad example.. Just ask if you're confused.

Science is the logical "piecing-together" of art, basically.

Answer 6

O ID LIEK TO NO THAT SOO MUCH I LOVE ASTRONOMY.

i have no clue.
its hard to explain my theory....
like what was there before the universe? was it a big space of nothing? but then how can that be possible to the big bang theory?
and how did that "atom of the big bang" said to be smaller than an atom created? what created the creator? what created god!?!? ASTRONOMY(or actually, just extra terrestrial) STUFF DRIVES ME CRAZY

Answer 7

OK - I have heard speculations on a big collapse too. It's all cycles... the known universe gets created and across time collapses and new universe forms. This cycle continues for ever... in the material world. There must be a stage just before the big bang and just after a big collapse (conceptually) that all the energy that makes up the universe is in potential energy form.

P.S. Since a lot of religious answers have been made - I am adding a second part to my answer based on my spiritual understanding. The original question was a scientific question which also included mention of God... so here goes:
1. The material universe is made of energy. Energy is neither created not destroyed but goes thru cycles of manifestation and unmanifestation (potential)
2. Souls (individual selves including all living beings not just just humans) go into a state of unmanifestation during the dissolution of the universe if these have not already been liberated. Their past karma and past desires (karama-vasanas) are stored even in this latent stage. When the material universe expands again these beings also come into a manifested stage and start over acquiring new bodies based on a portion of previous karmic balance and based on the most dominant desire (vasana) in their previous life.
3. But there is another state/ place/ being/ abode/ stage which is eternal and imperishable. This does not go through cosmic cycles of manifestations and dissolutions and those beings that have gone to this stage/ place do not go thru the above cycles of birth/ death anymore. This is a permanent place/ state/ stage/ abode. This does not need the sun, nor moon, nor fire as it is self luminous and when one goes here there is, no need to return to the material universe.

My source is Srimad Bhagavad Gita. Here are some relevant verses (from a new translation in progress) -

Beings are unmanifest in their beginnings, they are unmanifest in their ends and manifest only in the middles. O descendent of bharata, what is there to lament in this?
(II-28)

All realms up to the realm of bra-hma, are subject to rebirth a-rju-na; but those who attain Me, are not born again, O son of ku-nti! (VIII-16)

Those who know that a day of bra-hma spans for a thousand (ma-hA) yu-ga (4.32 billion yrs.) and (like wise) the night of bra-hma (also) spans for a thousand (ma-hA) yu-ga (4.32 billion yrs.), they (truly) know (what) a day and
a night (actually mean). (Note: ma-hA yu-ga = 4.32 million yrs.) (VIII-17)

At the coming of (bra-hma’s) day, all forms emerge from the unmanifest, and at the arrival of (bra-hma’s) night, they (all forms) disappear into the unmanifest. (VIII-18)

Indeed these multitudes of beings coming into existence over and over again are inevitably dissolved at the arrival of night, O pA-rtha and they come forth again at the arrival of day.
(VIII-19)

But higher than this unmanifested state, there exists yet another unmanifested eternal being. It is not destroyed even when all existences perish (remains untouched by the cosmic cycles). (VIII-20)

Know that all beings originate from this (two natures of Mine). I am the source and also the dissolution of the entire universe (The universe comes and goes with Me). (VII-6)

What is spoken of as “the Unmanifest and the Imperishable”, That, they declare as the highest goal. Those who reach “It”, never again return. That is My Supreme State. (VIII-21)

The sun, the moon, or the fire does not illuminate my supreme abode (which is bright beyond all light!), to which having gone there is no return. (xv-6)

Answer 8

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there aren't any gods

When you die (theoretically) you brain will not be functioning, so it'll be like permanently "sleeping" without any dreams, not living in heaven

gods are just things people a long time ago made up to explain all the things they couldn't

If you're wondering how things got created, then after the big bang, rocks smashed together and formed planets, gases combined to form stars, when there was finally carbon on earth, bacteria formed and slowly evolved into something else, which then evolved into something else etc. until chimpanzees evolved into humans

If you want to know on evolution google "Charles Darwin"

He was the person who theorized evolution, and thus the monkey in that show with the girl who talks to animals is named after him

Answer 9

No one knows for sure and probably never will. This would be more of a opinion answer put believing in god and the big bang, which I do, there was nothing but a void.

Answer 10

Slightly more bendy, and strawberry-flavored. The Quarter-Pounder actually weighed a quarter-pound *after* cooking. Also, the buses always ran eleven minutes late, but the airline food was actually edible.