…As Augustine wrote in his “Confessions”, and elaborated on in “The City of God”,

The world was created with time, not in time.

Augustine didn’t have available all the mathematical apparatus we have today, so he couldn’t give a scientific explanation. All he could do was state that time came into being with the universe. The universe was not created at some point in time, because before creation there was no time.

Another:

ps Note that creation continues. As the universe expands, both time and space are continually being created.

Ken:

For a reasonably readable account of this see Simon Singh’s recent book “The Big Bang”.

Salaam Ken Smith