Blood_pardon is actually testing the forum as a priest would have done. His question about space is a tricky one. But nevertheless he is honest. He speaks straight. Good for him.
What I would say is this:
_"no one wanted to learn anything ever" except you I hope.
_your biology teacher's behaviour is criminal. I am really surprised that "no one said anything."
_time is really an interesting subject.
_IMHO the mean thing is to remain sceptic. If you want the Truth and only but the Truth, search for it, I believe you are doing that already.
_speaking for myself, I always suppose that there is progress in knowledge, so that last explanationsd are more reliable than ancient ones. Following that simple procedure, I have some difficulty to accept explanations coming from a 2000 years (or older) book, even if it is a Holy one.
_Many scientists are believers. They see God everywhere in the structure of the universe as explained by modern science. Some of them use last discoveries in order to support their belief. Some others do exactly the opposite (mirrored): they use last discoveries to explain their no-belief. Both roads are wide opened. But none of them stand on a word-to-word interpretation of the scriptures.
Now, about space. The question of "was space existing before..." is related with the concept of creation. Creation is a concept coming from western christian culture. In other civilisations, there is no such a concept, but only an eternal circle like the seasons of the year. As I said in some other thread, the Big-Bang Theory is the modern derivation of the Creation concept, introduced by a creationist priest, accepted by the Pope, you should like it.
Of course, your question will remain.