@Setanta,
Quote:When i asked if you had read No Exit, it was in response to this rather tortured and silly question:
Banana Breath wrote:
If you believe "everything," that is, the universe, time, light, life, and all that we know and can observe, came into being as a direct outcome of the big bang, where did that singularity come from? How could that single point encapsulate all of a universe, all of time, all of space, and the necessary ingredients for all life within all of time? And that singularity had to exist PRIOR to the big bang in order for the big bang to occur, yet time itself didn't exist, so how could it have been before then? If the singularity comes from a place OUTSIDE of everything we know as time and space, what would you like to call that place? If it comes from a time BEFORE time began, what would you like to call that time?
I'm not sure if you're having difficulty with the English language, or simple counting, but that's five questions, not one, and if you've jumbled five questions in your mind into a single one, then your own jumbling is likely the source of your "tortured and silly" sensation. Regardless of which, you're not answering the questions so I'll have to presume you're unable to. But the evidence from a scientific point of view points to a paradoxical
time before time, and an
all-powerful force, from which springs the entire universe, and that singularity does not conform to our notions of space or time; we call it a point or a singularity only because we lack the vocabulary to describe the concept. In point of fact,
it has no dimensions, no width, no depth, no height, because spatial dimensions do not yet exist.
Some people would call that "God" while others would call it "the incomprehensibly powerful singularity that erupted into the big bang thus creating the universe." I think the difference between these terms is meaningless.
