(March 23, 2009 at 6:08 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: No, he/she/it's outside it.
I don't think that's possible. It's necessary to maintain an idea of God that we Christians see God, but to say something is "outside" the universe is to adopt magical thinking. There can be no "outside" of the universe. That's called an absurdity (really it is, I'm not saying you're absurd in a derogatory way, that's what an impossible conclusion is called).
And to be fair, the idea of the universe having a beginning is also absurd. The Big Bang may be many things, but it wasn't the beginning of the universe.