What was there before creation?
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Evolutionists and Big Bang theory believers some how hate that question! There appears to be a fear to scientificaly postulate that there exists a Creator. \nThe Creator revealed ,in the Torah first Book and chapter, that there was a beginning,and that the substance of the earth and the substance of the heavens was created into being.\nThe exact scentific  formula of creation was not given\nperhaps it would have been too much for humans to phantom.\nThe present scientific theory of the Big Bang assumes a material out of the size of a golf ball was the precreation\nbasic material of the universe.\nAs far as the time it took for creation it could have taken place in a shorter time than that out line in the Torah(if you apply Einstein concept of time in his time formula). However ,the planning of creation\nmay have consisted of a very long dilated time. Whether it is possible to guess if biological life took a very dilate time  is still a puzzle to Physisists. As an ignorant person of biological science ,all I can say from my own observation,is that it only take nine months for a Human baby to be born.\n\nLife to me is a puzzle, did I come out of nothing ?no.\nDoes anything come out of nothing? yes !if that nothing is something.
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thats a very scary question. there was no earth there was no space, there was no universe. WHAT WAS THERE?????? scary to think
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:}\nthe existence of anything\nNo creation without a creator\n\nthat great first cause.
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Humanity, pre-history.
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Time is a measurement. Before Creation, God existed in Eternity. Since eternity is measureless, no, time wasn't...or in other words.. there was no time before time started, at the beginning of CREATION.
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I wonder what was past before Internet?
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We invented the word "time" yes but that doesn't mean time wasn;t around before humanity. Time presumably began at the start of the big bang and its predicted it will end with the universe. \nReligous people believe in god who has always been around i.e.  *someone* who was around before time and will be around forever after time. \n \nHumanity discovered time, we didn't invent it.
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For your theory to work some 'thing' must exist before the Big Bang event and in which it could occur. Science has found absolutely no evidence whatsoever that any 'thing' preceded the Big Bang.
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This is a question that neither science or religion can ever "prove."  In our human capacity, it is unlikely anyone will ever know the answer to this.  How can you even take a scientific approach to this?  You can speculate how the universe appears to be created based off measurements in the space, but you can always ask the question "but what about before that?"  \n\nUltimately it comes down to faith, and I don't necessarily mean in a God.  You have faith that the universe was started somehow.  Either God or some unexplainable cosmic phenomenon that we will never understand.  Or both!
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Ahhh, I like your question, deep thought....\n\nThe best thing I can come up with after much thought of the creation of the universe is that it is a result of chaos from the lawlessness of nothingness.  I have wrote this in another answer to another question b-4.  The creation of the universe can not be explained by physics we have.  Physical laws did not exist at the instant of the big bang.  I believe the universe we live in today could have been 10 billion times more massive or 10 billion times less massive as it was dictated from lawlessness.  \n\nNow a very interesting thought I have recently pondered is our existence is actually a 'plan' of the universe in effort to thwart its' inevitable demise.  Maybe our universe has a urning, as we do, to live forever, and from the moment of its' creation there was the plan to allow circumstances within it allowing life to form and evolve in hopes that one day we or some other intelligent life could figure out a way to make the universe last, or live, forever.
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I'm not sure I understand your question.\nDo you mean that, "If "bananas", a never-before seen or imagined item suddenly appeared out of thin air, then Athiests would believe that these bananas came from monkeys"?\n\nIf so, then I would answer by saying that very rarely (if ever) do new objects suddenly appear from no source. (This does happen on a sub-atomic level, but only to certain particles and certainly not to "bananas") \n\nIf, someday something were to materialize from nowhere, it would be illogical to assume that the entire Athiest community would throw up their hands and declare, "The monkeys did it!" More reasonably, they would study the "bananas" and if after many trials, the "bananas" were not identified to have come from anywhere, they would probably classify "bananas" as a new type of "super-material" and leave it for future generations to ponder.\n\nIn regards to your question about proving the non-existance of such "bananas", that would be easy. All you have to do is show that "bananas" appeared recently. Then you could easily say that because no "bananas" existed before the date they first appeared, they must not have existed then. In other words, the current existence of the "bananas" is proof that they didn't exist then.\n\nIf I misunderstood your question I am sorry, please disregard my answer.
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how else would the universe have come into creation?  Before time existed, there must have been nothing, and at the first possible moment of time, there must have been some minute form of matter.  Whether or not the universe was created in a big bang, I cannot know, since if the big bang theory is true (as well as the Big Crunch theory), then it is possible that the universe has already cycled many times.\n\nBeyond that though, the Big Bang theory does NOT say that the size of the initial chunk of matter was infinitessimally small, it just says that it was supercompact.  It was probably insanely large, but relatively small for all the matter it withheld.
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Wow, what great questions.  Just so you know, we don't know the answer to what was before the big bang.  One idea is that our universe expands, then contracts on itself, over billions of years, and the whole big bang repeats over.  In other words countless universes preceded our own.
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who created the particles you speak of?\n\nIf there is just time,form nothing,and just particles,from nothing,why can't there be GOD,from nothing?\n\nI did not say GOD is nothing,I was just pointing out the flaw in your theory which you clearly have no real response to,So I bring you back to my first question.\n\nhttp://www.gotquestions.org
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This is a good question...it's actually something I've thought about before. It seems snobbish to believe that we are the only living things in the infinite universe, yet the Bible does not describe creation of anything but the Earth and its beings. \n\n"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1 \n\nThis verse states that the heavens were also created by God. Although the heavens are mentioned, the Bible may not go into detail about them for the simple reason that they were unknown at that time. For all we know, God could have created an identical planet to ours that we know nothing about. But in the past and present, it has been impossible to find out about anything much beyond our solar system.\n\nAs for the question of 6,000 years ago...well, it is pretty much a proven fact that time was measured differently when the Bible was written. People were recorded to live into their nine hundreds. So some of the "heavens" could have been created much before the earth and simply recorded as a day.\n\nThis is my theory...I hope I helped.
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Yet another interesting question, man_id.\n\nAll a theory of abiogenesis can do is give an answer for how life-from-non-life is *possible*.  ... I.e. what ingredients and conditions might result in a replication system that is sufficient for natural selection to take over?  And which ones *may* have been present in the early days of the earth (knowing what we do know about those days)?  There may, in fact, be multiple answers ... many different recipes, all equally possible.  If so, then we may never know which one actually occurred on our planet.\n\nBut it is also possible that we may never find a recipe that works that we know might have been available in the earth's infancy.  We've only started looking.
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How did matter come to exist? Obviously, these are not simple questions and throughout our brief history on this planet much time and effort has been spent looking for some clue. Yet, after all this energy has been expended through the BIG BANG, much of what we know is still only speculation. \n\nWhat came before the Big Bang?\nThe standard Big Bang model is singular at the time of the Big Bang, t = 0. This means that one cannot even define time, since spacetime is singular. In some models like the chaotic or perpetual inflation favored by Linde, the Big Bang is just one of many inflating bubbles in a spacetime foam. But there is no possibility of getting information from outside our own one bubble. Thus I conclude that: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."