After this, anybody's guess is as good as mine:

 

The Body After Death

 

After the heart stops beating, the body immediately starts turning cold. This phase is known as algor mortis, or the death chill. Each hour, the body temperature falls about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.83 degrees Celsius) until it reaches room temperature. At the same time, without circulation to keep it moving through the body, blood starts to pool and settle. Rigor mortis, or a stiffening of the body, sets in about two to six hours after death.

 

While the body as a whole may be dead, little things within the body are still alive. Skin cells, for example, can be viably harvested for up to 24 hours after death. But some things that are still alive lead to the putrefaction, or decomposition, of the body -- we're talking about little organisms that live in the intestines.

 

A few days after death, these bacteria and enzymes start the process of breaking down their host. The pancreas is full of so many bacteria that it essentially digests itself. As these organisms work their way to other organs, the body becomes discolored, first turning green, then purple, then black. If you can't see the change, you'll smell it soon enough, because the bacteria create an awful-smelling gas. In addition to smelling up the room, that gas will cause the body to bloat, the eyes to bulge out of their sockets and the tongue to swell and protrude. (In rare instances, this gas has created enough pressure after a few weeks to cause decomposing pregnant women to expel the fetus in a process known as coffin birth.)

 

A week after death, the skin has blistered and the slightest touch could cause it to fall off. A month after death, the hair, nails and teeth will fall out. The hair and nails, by the way, while long rumored to keep growing after death, don't have any magical growth properties. They merely look bigger as the skin dries out. Internal organs and tissues have liquefied, which will swell the body until it bursts open. At that point, a skeleton remains.

 

Now, most of us don't see that process because the law requires that we do something with the body. There are endless possibilities: We can choose a coffin for our body or an urn for our ashes. We can be embalmed, mummified or frozen. Some cultures were rumored to engage in cannibalistic rituals of consuming the dead, while others left their dead exposed to the elements for animals to cart away. You could donate your body to science or ask for burial at sea. But unless mummified or preserved, bodies eventually disintegrate in the process described above. However, burial in a coffin slows the process tremendously; even the type of soil in which you're buried can make a difference.

 

Disposal of a dead body is largely regulated by cultural and religious beliefs. Early cultures buried the dead with their favorite possessions (and sometimes their favorite people) for the afterlife. Sometimes, warriors or servants were buried standing up, eternally ready for action. Orthodox Jews shroud their dead and bury them on the same day as death, while Buddhists believe that consciousness stays in the body for three days. Hindus are cremated, because it's believed that burning releases the soul from the body, while Roman Catholics frown on cremation out of respect for the body as a symbol of human life.

 

Religion and culture will always be intertwined with death, and one large area of influence relates to the ethical questions surrounding the dying process.

What happened?

 

They were communicating with people they did not even know existed and given one was very young and the other had down syndrome I'm ruling out fraud. It was both disconcerting and comforting.

Been a while since I studied evolution but I don't think evolution says there was nothing 14 billion years ago, just that it was all clumped together until the big bang. Now science has not been able to answer exactly what caused the big bang, they just feel it or something like it did happen.

 

Something did happen, GOD spoke!

Something did happen, GOD spoke!

 

Well, I believe God Spoke before all this and everything unraveled according to His plan and I guess in some ways, is still unraveling according to His plan.

 

Now, you and I are on the same page but I am guessing Science Friction is still among those looking for answers to what happened before the Big Bang, ie where did all this stuff come from.

Well, I believe God Spoke before all this and everything unraveled according to His plan and I guess in some ways, is still unraveling according to His plan.

 

Now, you and I are on the same page but I am guessing Science Friction is still among those looking for answers to what happened before the Big Bang, ie where did all this stuff come from.

 

Science does not have the answer because it is beyond our comprehension. The answer to how stupid we are is in the book of job.

I thought the Big Bang theory was Stephen hawking

 

Sheldon Cooper. :thumb:

Well, I believe God Spoke before all this and everything unraveled according to His plan and I guess in some ways, is still unraveling according to His plan.

 

Now, you and I are on the same page but I am guessing Science Friction is still among those looking for answers to what happened before the Big Bang, ie where did all this stuff come from.

 

This question is extremely complicated. I'll do my best to explain my understanding of it that I learned from my senior religion class.

 

There are two concepts of "time." The first is called Kronos. Kronos is the time which is shown on the clock. It is the type in which you can put a year, date, month, day, really any type of label. It is the time we humans use in literally everyday life. For example, "There have been humans on earth for 200,000 years." This is something that can be measured and recorded.

 

The second type of time is called the Kairos. Kairos time cannot be measured on a clock. Kairos time is God's time. It simply exists. It is. Why, you ask? Because God said "Be."

 

CS Lewis says "If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must picture God as the whole page on which the line is drawn." So the drawn line is Kronos [events of the Universe are we know it], and the whole page is Kairos [God's time, which has always existed, is existing now, and will always exist forever].

 

So, asking "what was Earth before the Big Bang?" is like a mix between the two concepts of time. The Universe as we know it did not exist before the Big Bang. But God did. My answer to the question "What happened before the Big Bang?" is just simply: God was.

 

I understand this is a complicated subject, but anything that is real is not simple. Oftentimes Christianity's lessons that are simplified for young children are those that are attacked by non-Christians, but when you have a mature, deep conversation the answer is quite complex. I hope my explanation helped somebody. JMO.