(January 18, 2020 at 1:58 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: Non-believers ignore the question about "what was before" the big bang; theists say otherwise.
Yes, the first to speculate on this question was St. Augustine, in the long discussion of the nature of time in his Confessions.
Of course he didn't use the term "big bang," but he did address the feasibility of talking about the concept of "before" anything was created. He thought that time in the absence of anything else didn't make sense.
I've always suspected that The Reverend Monsignor Georges Lemaître probably knew Augustine's thoughts on this pretty well.
