When time and matter came into being, did the cause have to be a god or something else?
Depending on how much you want to look in to the theoretical of physics you can trace back the creation of the universe and beyond for the creation of matter, this is backed by monitoring the red shift on radiation left over from that experiment. Time is fundamentally still unknown, whether it is a human concept, another form of motion or a law in itself despite how we use it has not been clearly resolved. Those that hold no belief in science or those that look to view science through their religion believe that God has to have played a part in the start of the universe although there are better theories for it creation and the principal school of thought here Creationism has been long disproved and is slowly being defunct by all but the hardened supporter. Creationists constantly fight against fossil records and the red shift, even evolution. If God did start the universe then that of itself poses some hard questions. The Creation story in the Bible is accepted as a instructional stor