CTD: "You may be thinking there's something to this "matter always was" business, but it's just an assumption. There is no need for time, space, matter, or energy to have always been. Such assumptions actually clutter things up considerably.

As with any investigation of history, I maintain things need to be reconciled and verified. One can go to great lengths to reconcile compromises, but their elements cannot be verified in the first place."

Actually the matter issue is quite scientific... And I'm not compromising anything in saying that. God has power over the elements....