where did the universe come from? and where is it going?

I think the universe was created by the explosion of another, previous universe contracting until it was so small it literally popped like a balloon that has been squashed too tightly. The force would have been so huge that it would have simply exploded.

I realy don't think that you can take God out of the equasion of the start of the universe or any thing else. You just can't take nothing and get something. Even the big bang theroy has to have something to start with. It is a circular motion theroy that to me seems to just keep going around in circles. So I don't see how you can leave God out. Beside Science and theology are very compatable. The differecnce is in the interpatation of the fact in front of you.

I can get trhough teological/philosophical answers with scientific way of thinking, sometimes... it is true that with the "creation" thing it is more difficult, specially if you don't take into account other orogenias but the "Genesis" one... The scientific metod for this research is analyzing what is in constant change in the universe, then roll this change in an hypotetical back. That is how they made the theory of the big bang: they have calculated that the space is in constant expansion, so they suppose once it was "unexpanded", compressed.

The problem we have with explaining the beginning of the universe is the creation from nothing theory or "big Bang" The other problem we have is our limited knowledge of physics of the universe....we are assuming there is only one universe...we dont know this for sure and in fact a growing number of scientists are coming to believe the possibility of parrallel universes existing in the same space and time and of even universes within universes as we now have solar systems within galaxies etc....even the shape of the universe as we know it is open to debate..if there are more than one universe then what shapes are the others. we know that galaxies have several different shapes and patterns.. the wonders of gravity etc etc..there is a school of thought that the universe is expanding and there is evidence to proove this too at least in the way it is being interpreted...another problem..given a set of so called facts how are we to interpret them. ancient wise men construed that the sun orbited the earth and that the earth was the centre of the universe.. how wrong was that? in short the name universe sums up human vanity.... from the greek meaning "one" if we are right and have more than one it would be a contradiction in terms to continue to call our limited habitat the "universe"