[adorno]

I’ve always been one to advocate that God creating the universe, etc. in such a short span of time, is explainable by Einstein’s theory of relativity—haha!

If time is a measurable property of the universe, and that universe is a creation of God, then time itself is part of the creation. In other words, before the universe, there was no time.

After the universe was created, God set it on a continuous ever-changing course, with "time" thrown into the mix. For God to create the universe, he didn't need time the way we measure it. In the beginning, there was no time, and if there was no time, then everything that we know and can see and can measure, was created in "no time at all". Thus, the big bang is unnecessary in order to explain the vastness of the universe.

[LomanBill]

[If time is a measurable property of the universe, and that universe is a creation of God, then time itself is part of the creation. In other words, before the universe, there was no time. ]

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Time is a derivative function of state change whose rate is relative to the inertial frame(s) in which it is being observed.

That’s what’s self-evident to me.