How? Poem by Tom Higgins

if before the big bang there was nought,
how come the prophets and philosophers never thought,
to raise a major point, strangely missed,
that before the universe, time did not exist!

So if there was no such thing as time,
is it not just slightly, a bit asinine,
to state categorically that god is the creator,
was he there before, or did he come later?

Yes how did such a deity come to be,
in order to make you and me,
the universe, the stars, the planets, all lands and seas?
Answers on a postcard, please!