Originally posted by @wolfgang59
Yeah, you are right.
It's a pretty rubbish theory explaining the origin of energy and matter,
and successfully predicting the formation of stars and galaxies. Plus
it is totally supported by all our observations.
Much better is: "Let there be light!"
Where did everything come from that went, "bang" where was it sitting, it had to be
somewhere, what was going on before, what changed to make the bang? As I said, it
doesn't explain where everything came from, even where just the universe came from, it
simply goes so far back even our imaginations cannot go back any more. Successfully
predicting the formation of stars and galaxies, explaining the origin of energy and matter?
Were not all of those things in play before in the theory, just in some other state? If so,
nothing about the origin was ever addressed, just some stop in another evolutionary
process that we have to accept on faith.