Big Bang does not provide a theory of cosmic origins. It delineates cosmic evolution from a split second. It says nothing about time zero so BANG is left out. Do you have any theory of cosmic origin?

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The Big Bang is the best theory we have, it is supported by abundant evidence, and is the closest we can get to the Univere's origin. The cause of the Big Bang is only speculation and may never be fully known, but that does not mean the Big Bang itself didn't happen. Some people put God as the cause, but that's not the only explanation. Whenever someone says the Big Bang is "just a theory" they are proving that they are ignorant because they don't know the definition of a scientific theory. In science a theory is far from a guess, conjecture, or speculation; it is simply an explanation backed by sufficient evidence.

AnswerThe big bang does not provide a theory of cosmic origins. The big bang is just a theory. I am a Christian so you can jest all you want, but the big bang is pretty much as possible as my God creating it because EVERY THING FROM SPACE TIME TO ASTRONOMY TO THE END OF TIME came from NOTHING AT ALL and it is possible that the universe came out of something that did not exist. I know that part of the theory is that the universe came out of a molecular explosion, but where did the molecules come from? If they were not there, as for the cosmic origin scientists will tell you that they came from clouds called nursery clouds, cosmic nursery clouds actually, and that the cosmos came from those nursery clouds. I believe that God made the cosmos. The cosmic origin could not have come from the big bang because it is as plausible as God being real to scientists. AnswerGod is my theory of cosmic origin. I am a Christian believer in God and the truth of The Bible. I also have no difficulty consolidating my belief in God with an acceptance of scientific explanations for the origin of the cosmos. I agree with the Big Bang theory as well as the theory of evolution by natural selection for living organisms on Earth. But I believe it all had to begin somehow, with something, before there was anything. It began with the First Cause of all things, God.

I also highly recommend the book entitled "The Language of God" written by Francis Collins, who oversaw the Human Genome Project for several years.

AnswerSearch for materials on the newly emerging Membrane Theory. There are aspects of the theory that are extremely interesting and that allow physicists [theoretically] to go through and past the Big Bang, to meaningfully speculate about conditions existing prior to the Big Bang, and to explore some possibilities about what caused the Big Bang. I think this model harmonizes reasonably well with some faith-based approaches.

Big Bang was coined as a term of derision toward those who first advocated the theory that everything was, at some time in the distant past, all in one place. There could have been no actual bang, because there was no medium through which sound could propagate. The Big Bang theory is indeed a theory of cosmic origin. There is no requirement that every theory be a 'theory of everything', or that the theory itself contain the answer to every imaginable question that it might inspire. A theory should account for current observations, it should be possible to test or search for evidence that supports the theory or that refutesit. And the theory should, as the questioner demonstrates, lead to further questions.

Philosophers of science can argue powerfully that no theory can actually be proven; this makes scientific work all the more tantalizing. The strength of the best theories is not that they provide clear, detailed and complete answers that are beyond challenge. The crumbling of theories in the light of new knowledge is a wonderful thing, even if not for the persons who devoted their careers to the crumbling theories. "The strength of theories is that they turn Mysteries into Problems." This statement is a paraphrase from: How We Make Decisions; Read Montague, Plume, 2006.