Before the Big Bang

Nothing existed. But what would you expect from a non-place with non-materials that had no ontoloical meaning becasue there was no time? And how hot was it just before the big bang went off? Unrealistically hot!The big bang theory is the logical result from discovering that the universe is expanding. There are no know phycisal laws or principles that explain what "existed" before the big bang happened. But "existence" is a fragile term, easily abused by philosophers of science. It is impossible for us to know what preceded the big bang, because we are still too ignorant about the physics of nothingness and timelessness.Who knows? Maybe a bearded old man tinkering with the cosmological constant set off the big bang by mistake. Paul Davies did call is it "The Accidental Universe."”HM

I believe Mod is correct. I use nothingness vaguely as a metaphor for our ignorance about pre-big-bang conditions. The same could be said about the conditions attending abiogenesis. I'm sure they were physical, too, but we still don't know what they were. Miracles fill in where scientific principles fail to explain. The need to believe in miracles is worse than a drug; it will run off with your soul. But gods are always comforting until something better comes along. I believe science is the true miracle, if not another kind of drug. After all, it was Einsten who said: "The most incomprehensible thing about nature is that it is comprehensible."”HM

How do you justify believing in "eternal life" while rejecting the concept of immaterial timelessness in pre-big-bang cosmology?”HM

ICANT, you wrote: ICANT, are you aware of what you are asserting here? You are saying, essentially, that you know God's views, and that He sees the whole big picture in the moment of now. How on earth could you or anyone else know what God sees? Isn't that just about the most arrogant claim anyone could make?And while you go on believing this with no problem at all, you fail to grasp key scientific speculations on T