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Cute - what are your thoughts of eternity vs. time? the PhDs would indicate an ability to express yourself with a reasoned train of thought instead of quips - I don't have those lofty degrees,
The parentheticals were meant to indicate that I was kidding about all the degrees. I do have an post-graduate degree, but only one, and not in the sciences. but I can detect a lazy/u informed evasion when I see it. I've heard the Big Bang theories that everything was compreesed to the size of an atom, when time/matter/energy did not exist, to be suddenly spewed out, creating time/energy/mass. Perhaps the term "before time" might seem simplistic to one so lofty as you, but the concept of it can't be that hard to grasp if there was nothing before the Big Bang, then that state must have preceeded it. Then the theories that figure everything will stop expanding, only to recompress and then regenerate in a new Big Bang also indicates that there was a "before".
Not an evasion. I haven't done any reading in this area in years, so I am not up to snuff on it, beyond the very basics. You need to find some one who is conversant in the science if you want any depth to the discussion.