Some thoughts about the Big Bang...

[Drotar]

(this is from an atheist standpoint)

At a point in the singularity no time would have existed.
In order for there to be cause and effect, there has to be time.
If there was no time 'before' the singularity, it couldn't have had a cause, and thus must JUST exist. (no boundary theory)

Oh, BTW, I meant to look at this earlier.

Prove time even exists. Time is simply the means by which we measure the longevity of events.

If time were absolute, then I suppose this would make more sense. Consider a black hole, time slows down in such that it virtually stops by all reasonable standards.

Now, outside of it, time continues as is usual for us. TIME IS RELATIVE.

There was a time when no time existed IN OUR UNIVERSE. Of course, it could have existed elsewhere outside our universe, much like time can exist outside a black hole when that slows down to virtually nothing.

I don't think time exists in heaven either. Time is a means of measuring. But that doesn't mean that doesn't exist.

Suppose that the cause came from outside the universe, where out time isn't connected with it.