If matter can neither be created or destroyed, why did God have to create it? The Muslims believe Allah never created anything, he was just extemporaneous with the existing matter. Perhaps the matter itself is God, but what was God doing all that time before there was matter? Can time exist without matter? If God exists outside time and space, where did he get the materials for all the matter he created? Or was he like Allah and just gave it order? As opposed to the total chaos of nothingness? Hmmmm.No trick question. Where did the big bang come from. For your theory to work matter had to come from someplace. Unless of course God put it there