If it was a loop then energy must remain constant. Universe is not loosing any energy, so it can be loop .

I don't think you understand your own brain.

Deep in human brain there is a primitive simple part as a residuum from our lizard predecessors...it is a small part, very small part, incapable of thinking nor talking. It is like a wash machine, it just follows steps.

You can train monkey to use language, monkey Moya knew more words than you do yet it never asked a single question, because even so advanced animals like monkeys with their big brains do not have "Theory of though" which means the monkey does not realise that You could know something that the monkey does not know...

Monkey brain is several hundred times larger than lizards' brain... so No, lizards cannot speak, never could, never will.

Yes, we can. We know the universe had a start since it's not a constant thing. It changes. It cannot change by itself. Something must act upon it. ...something must act upon it???? Why? Please try to differentiate your personal wishes and real world....

Never said it had to be. So if your gods are just dumb force like gravity, why should we even care...?

I assume that you have some serious mental issues. Because I said no random Google searches...

We know something created the universe

You cannot know that.

This something would have to be great in power

Even if it could exist it does not have to be conscious, it could be "dumb" force like gravity...

My point is a universe is a cycle then it has no begining. To make it simple consider this scenario:

I am a mad scientist and I create a strange device. I turn it on and it creates a black hole that eats whole universe then became unstable and explodes into a big bang where planets and creatures evolves and then me building the device.... over and over again, does not matter far back or forward you will look. You will be always inside the system ... so no begging at all...

How do you know talking animals actually existed? What if a deity just created a universe and didn't care what happened?

Lizards' brain is too simple...

Time is only constraining in our universe. Outside of the universe is unfathomable....*

There is no outside the universe... by universe we mean a set of things that exists, therefore things outside the universe from definition cannot exist.

If there is no time outside the universe then time isn't required for events to occur. If there is no time then nothing is happening. Imagine that I shut you in room without oxygen, would that mean for you that you do not need oxygen to live any more?... I don't think so.

It feels like talking to a wall.... WHERE exactly is the "research paper"?

God created our concept of "time." He is outside of time, ...and people created gods ...it is a perfect circle :D :D

where exactly are those "studies"? (as usual, no religious webpages and or wikipedia)

I don't know, nobody does. Big Bang is a real thing, there is no doubt about it... if there was something before, hard to say, whole universe could be an infinite loop... so then there would be no beginning... but no one knows.

Only cowards cannot admit that they do not know and hide behind stories about talking animals, wizards, magic and stupidity...