I like the word “Expansion.” As I understand it, the masses of the universe were condensed into one tiny, tiny speck. Enough that, because of the gravity associated with that much mass condensed into such a small… (well, i don’t want to use space, because it was made up of space and matter, so we’ll just say “pinprick”)... such a small pinprick, when the Expansion (called “big bang” sometimes) happened, space matter and time and all of these things unfurled, creating the universe as we know it, 14 billion years ago. I don’t claim to know what the universe was before it was, or what triggered the Expansion; I’m a Linguist, not a Scientist, but these are my findings.
In addition to being a Linguist, I am also religious. Being a topic of great controversy, I would like you all to consider this;
My God is divinely intelligent enough to use all of science- ALL OF IT- to his desires. Science and religion go hand in hand. Maybe they seem opposites at first, but when you look deeper into either of the subjects this question arises: How could God have created this universe without the use of science?