Space before or after?

Question

Big bang or Creation as one prefers, understand theory that content of the universe before the event was the size of a marble. Question: Space, part of the event or did it exist before? Space its self, is made up of?

Could God have "used" the Bang theroy and both are correct?

"Time" is only a reference based on what we see, such as the Sun and our rotation converted to a measuring system. Time its self is not an absolute. Time did not exist before the Event.

My choice to believe God is the begining of begning is because of my lack of faith to accept nothing is the begining of everything. I don't look down on those who can "actually" accept nothing as everything, like it or not we all live in the same world of existance..

Answer 1

According to Dr. Hawkings, the 'big bang' can be calculated backward to within seconds of the event but there is only one logical solution for the question of, 'where did the singularity that comprises all matter actually originate?' -- the answer, (again, the only LOGICAL answer) was a supreme being. So I suppose space, or the great void, would have been present prior to the creation of the singularity. Once it was there, 'God said, "let there be light..", BANG!
.... now I have an ice-cream headache....

Answer 2

When considering the Universe as a whole, and that would include its origin, normal logic doesn't apply. When you think about it, this makes sense. We're talking about the Universe. That is all that ever was or ever will be. BTW, physicists project their model of the Universe back to when it was much smaller than a marble.

Scientists are frustrated with the idea of a Universe which has no cause, but this is the only conclusion one can make, because if it had a cause, then that just means the Universe goes back farther than we thought. So they have come up with some desperate attempts to explain how it all started, but they really can't do it. They don't like having to admit that this not only isn't known, but it cannot be known. That is the Universe's way of humbling us.

What was before the Big Bang? Nothing. No space. No energy or matter. No time. Nothing. This is a disturbing concept, but still, it is only one opinion. Everything in the Universe has a cause...except the Universe.

This gives some comfort to the God people. They are glad that science can't explain it any better than they can. The only difference is that they depend on a supernatural cause. One could logically ask what caused God, but the answer would be the same as the answer to what caused the Big Bang.

Many have considered that God created the Universe *using* the Big Bang. Many even believe in a God who directed evolution, just the way science has revealed it. These people are the only believers whose faith has a chance of surviving the revelations of the natural world. The biblical creationists, some of whom have posted here, are lost. They depend on two pages of an ancient document which evolved from myth, folklore, and dogmatic religious authority. Sad, with what we know about the world today.

I am an atheist, but if I believed in God, it could not possibly be the God of Genesis. It would be a much grander and elegant creator. It would be one that is not contradicted by every piece of evidence we find.

Answer 3

The only logic I can grasp is that space and time were created the instance that marble expanded and just keep exanding.

As you know, space is made up of many things: Stars, Planets, Galaxies, Black Holes, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and so forth.

I don't know what happened before the big bang, no one does. God? Maybe. But, God is a very objective character amongst us, and can be interpreted in many ways. To me, He acts more as a reason to fulfill our natural curiousity and an explanation to find an easy answer.

But, aren't you glad your question brings relevance to the ongoing mystery?

Answer 4

The universe, as we know it, is all containted within the event of the Big Bang. Anything outside that border we would not be able to "experience" it - not visually, nor any other way. Physical laws that we take for granted here may not apply in that realm. As for the composition of space.... it's a physical form that contains the individual locations for all the dimensions that exist in our universe, whether they're filled with material or empty.

Answer 5

I believe that space came before everything else. It is said that God made man, earth, and the heavens, etc., but the heavens does not mean space/universe, the heavens can be anything. Also if one were to go into the big bang theory, then that would be a simple answer (space can before).

Answer 6

Human beings are wired to perceive only 3 dimensions. The 3D universe we see is only a small part of a multi-dimensional universe. The matter-energy we perceive has attributes we can't even imagine. What we see as the universe was born from an event involving "stuff" in higher dimensions.

Answer 7

Both time and space were rolled up in the object that BLEVEd. Neither had their current properties. There was no "before" before the event. There was no "where" before the event.

Answer 8

So there became this element reported as dark remember which invented area and it form of exploded scientists don't understand what there became in the previous that. humorous how i understand that simply by fact i'm 10

Answer 9

I believe in creationism, or that the Earth and this vast and expanse universe was created by God.

Answer 10

space is made up of matter out in the galexsies and i believe that god created the world in six days and rested on the seventh