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'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems sympathetic. After all, if the universe has only been around for roughly 14 billion years, isn't it legitimate to ask what was in existence before the mother-of-all-events cranked up the cosmos?

Every time we get a story that says there was a Big Bang, then people want to know what was before that. And if we find out, what was before that?

Time was God's first creation.

If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.

Virtually every scientist now concedes that universe and time itself had beginning. So, whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe must have had a cause.

You have no beginning of time. It's always been there.

This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe.

It was only about sixty years ago that the expansion of the universe was first observed.

In God's eyes, there's not before and after. Every moment of time is simultaneous to God.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.