Juanita
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For the scientific perspective, as I understand it: there was nothing before the Big Bang. Space, time, matter, energy ... nothing existed.
Understanding that space-time is a continuum and there's a mass/energy equivalence. There's also a common misconception (of which I included myself) that when scientists say the universe is expanding, they don't mean that it's "outwordly" expanding into preexisting space. What they mean is that there is intrinsic expansion where the scale of space itself is changed. Meaning that as time goes on, there is no moving, just that there suddenly is more distance, more existance.
As for those that believe in a God, I wanted to create a post here because I would like to know their perspective too.
Yep, creating......call it expanding or whatever...