[Recon Dad]

You have failed to answer the question what came before. Something does not come from nothing.

[TXnMA]

You have failed to answer the question what came before. Something does not come from nothing.

Answer: Read the first four words of Genesis...

The present discussion is of clear evidence of precisely (as precisely we can we can measure it at present) when those words applied.

[newcats]

You have failed to answer the question what came before.

I asked YOU why you think that something had to be there before.

Something does not come from nothing.

Respected men of learning used to have the same conviction about the shape of the earth, the orbits of planets, and that man could never fly.
Shouldn't you say, something does not comes from nothing....unless God is involved. Your closed mindness is showing just a bit.

[agere_contra]

... to answer the question (of) what came before.

A quick clarification. There is no "before". Not only space and matter, but time itself sprang forth from the hand of God at the creation. There can be no concept of time where there is no dimension or substance.

And at the ending of creation there will - again - be no more time. There will be ... something else.