The Time Before Time:

The Time Before Time:

"If man made time, would that not suggest that before the age of man, there was no linear sequence of events that could be expressed in some other way than: **all happening at once? **

Does this support the theory of Creation? Vs Evolution?  I suppose just about any written work can be interpreted in a nearly limitless number of ways.  However,  when I referred to "all happening at once", at no point did I reference Faith, God, or some other ethereal kinetic source capable of converting a void, to a non-void( of course Creationists could take the position that "God" not only creates all that there is, but also all that there isn't.  After all, there are a great deal of highly educated and thoughtful folks who think of our super-contextual environment as significantly more populated by that which is "not" than by that which "is".  And this is not nearly as convoluted as it may sound:  one who digs a hole is surely accountable for creating a space densely populated by the "existence" of nothing.  The pursuit of explanations to the *currently* and historically unexplainable unfortunately so often dead-end with concepts of Faith, and the deities that generally form the core of these faiths.  So, for the moment, to greatly simplify matters and stay focused on matters that exclude excruciatingly strong biases towards Beliefs, Trusts, and Devotions to essences that may or may not exist.  I will play the part of the Agnostic dissenter. 

Let's suppose that "god" suddenly created *Everything*.  Well for starters a very common belief is that even "god" required 7 days.  Now these were not simultaneously occurring days that were compacted down to a relativistic time/space microscopity.  In fact, Creation is described in terms of a linear progression.  Exactly 6 days (possibly working into an evening or two…), but it was done on the seventh day.  This is obviously an extremely precise measure of time.  Possibly “god”, in a fleeting moment of anachronistic amusement, created for himself a calendar, and possible even a watch.  Within the realm of Creationism, I don’t believe it is clearly stated when other timekeeping instruments such as the Sun and Moon where manifested.  So, supposing, in the absence of a watch or calendar, the sun and moon were actually *created* on day 3, and further supposing that there really wasn’t anything else to serve as a reliable “time keeper”, it could be possible that “god” didn’t actually finish creating until day 10.  But of course an all-powerful entity wouldn’t seem to have much trouble making a few adjustments in elapsed “something”(i.e. a linear progression of some number of events that occurred before the delineation provided by time), thus things finished in a nice round number 7( or 6 if you don’t count recovery time). Which raises another interesting point about time:  if God always was, and always is and will be, why was he so tired after just 6 days of work?  Even by Creationist measures, *god* has been at work for around 6,000 years.  But of course we would never be privy to whether or not *god* is kicking back resting every once in a while. 

So, did man create time?  Time create Man?  Maybe.  We are told that “god” took a rest on day 7; I suppose it’s possible that as “god” was resting, Man was busy as a bee establishing units of linear measure, which are most commonly referred to as Time.

Lastly, the concept that at some point in *time*, there was an exceedingly large “BANG”, may at least partially explain events post-bang, but what was this super-kinetic Bang-capable “thing” doing before it went BANG. Waiting?  Resting?  Practicing (wouldn’t you, for something so BIG”. 

Ok, so what do we think we might know about time?  Some of these ideas concern progressions of events that may or may not have occurred over “time” (depending on your individual bias).  Still others are of the belief that all this banging and creation defied the applicability of Time, since after all “man created Time”. 

So the two prevailing theories regarding the transformation of “vacuous somethings”, into somethings of a more fathomable density, both have well defined starting points within the dichotomous communications of Science and Religion.  But what I would like to have a better understanding of is what was happening before either of these two competing events took place?  I for one have absolutely no idea.