Gambit Wrote:My reasoning is thus: I don't understand how there's a "before time". Take the singularity, for example. If it created the universe then it must have been in motion, which requires time to mark its progression. However, we're led to believe that before the big bang event there was no time. This is one of those points where perhaps my understanding of the science fails me.Aren't you familiar with a cyclic model like "the Big Crunch"?basically, average density of the universe is enough to slow, stop, and reverse expansion. The end result: BIG CRUNCH ... Followed immediately by a Big Bang. Heat death would still eventually occur but we couldn't know when or better- we don't know how many times this has happened.
Second: Matter being born from nothing. I don't get how something can come from nothing. Therefore, to me, something outside of the laws of nature - an entity that we'll call god - is the only thing that can circumvent this rule. This entity, being outside of the laws of nature, doesn't have to follow the argument of infinite regression.
This has been argued due to (the extremely minute amount of) what we know of dark energy being the cause for the initial cosmic inflation. But cosmic inflation stopped and became what we call expansion which was a huge change. So basically: one more odd change in the " equation of state" and things could stop expanding and start "retracting."[/quote][/code]
