Time is an illusion. Dependent on intelligent life, time cannot exist where intelligence does not. God did not create time, man created time; man is enslaved by time, which is no more tangible than an idea. One cannot touch time, cannot hear time, cannot smell time; one cannot see time.
There is no evidence of the existence of time, only change; humans record change through man-made measurements of time — changing over a period of time is more commonly known as evolution, as any change that take place effects the human species either directly or indirect, and is always of a progressive nature as existence itself is a continuum — a perpetual state of change.
Time is dependent on evolution — time cannot exist without evolution, as evolution cannot exist without time; they are one and the same, yet cannot exist without the material evidence of change, while change can exist independently of the two, such as any instantaneous change. Change must occur before time and evolution can become ideas; without change, life would be a freeze-frame image for eternity. Quite simply, change fuels existence, and if one believes in their own existence and of time itself, then one inevitably believes in evolution.
Change fuels existence as energy fuels change.
The concept of change is a paradox on the micro scale — an infinite number of variables applicable to an infinite number of situations. Change itself, however, is powered by energy; without energy, life would be inanimate. Energy is in a constant state of change, therefore it can be reasoned that energy creates change, which in turn creates more energy — a state of energy is needed to affect change as change is needed to affect energy; they cannot exist outside of each other.
Absolute nothingness is the only thing absent of energy and this only applies to the very beginning, as anything that is, once was not. The big bang theory suggests everything is created from a massive amount of energy, but fails to explain where that energy originated, implying that the big bang was not the transition from absolute nothingness to existence, but merely an expansion of an existence that was already in place. Likewise, religions explain creation via their gods and stories, but also imply that existence that we know of is merely an expansion of a previous existence when they fail to account for the origins of the gods.
Assuming that the nonmaterial formed before the material, aka if the spirit was created before the physical, then one could reasonably assume that intelligence was the first energy created, as anything in existence is of intelligent design and purpose, and without intelligence, there would be no progress or change. If the energy of intelligence is responsible for the creation of existence as perceived today, then intelligence would be the link between the big bang theory, where all life sprang forth from a giant mass of energy, and the religious supreme creator being, an energy form.
If there was previous existence before the big bang expansion, it would most logically be of an energetic/ethereal nature to fall in line with the todays accepted age of the physical universe, as well as with the Bible’s statement that God created the heavens and then the Earth implying that there were two separate creations. Scientifically, if the spirit realm is real, its existence is of an energetic nature; whether existing physically in a different dimension or not existing physically at all, existence itself is energy.
But if the soul and angels existed before the physical universe, which they would undoubtedly of had to, who created them? God? Who created God? It is a true paradox to which one may never understand. If God created itself, then logically God would have to of been created in order to create itself. However, if one were to consider the situation in more finite detail, if something were to be created from nothing, again, it would first and foremost be an energy before physical matter, and consequently, that first energy to originate would have to be an energy of intelligence — the cornerstone of functionality; without intelligence, could nothing create something? In the case of religion, intelligence would be the supreme creator.
If the spirit realm is only of legend, the paradox remains. The big bang theory definitely does not support the beginning of time; it can be nothing but an expansion of a previous existence. Scientists believe that in the beginning, there was already an extremely hot, dense, and massive energy that exploded, giving birth to a forever expanding cosmos. However, that clearly is not the beginning as everything that is has a beginning, but not necessarily an end. If heat, energy, and gasses were already in existence leading to the big bang, then something previously is responsible for the creation of that massive amount of energy to begin with. With a god out of the equation, the only energy logically probable of being capable of creating itself out of absolute nothingness would be the energy of intelligence, and given the exact design and functionality of the known multiverse, one would conclude that intelligence was present in the very beginning, and one would be ignorant to assume humans are the only intelligent life-form in a reality where intelligence permeates throughout.