Now, I'm no cosmologist or physicist so I could have this all wrong, but I thought one of the ideas that seems to be popular is that time as we know it and as it functions for us, did not exist prior to the Big Bang.
So there basically is no such thing as "before", before the Big Bang.
And what always seems to come up on forums where there are creationists involved, is the whole.... well it happened because the universe was an effect, so if effect then cause, if cause then "before", if "before" then god,
But apply that to their god and, well, he's exempt from it.
Try and exempt our universe from it and, nooooo, everything has to follow that pattern.
So there basically is no such thing as "before", before the Big Bang.
And what always seems to come up on forums where there are creationists involved, is the whole.... well it happened because the universe was an effect, so if effect then cause, if cause then "before", if "before" then god,
But apply that to their god and, well, he's exempt from it.
Try and exempt our universe from it and, nooooo, everything has to follow that pattern.