Scientists attribute our existence to the Higg’s field because it is through its interaction with particles that mass emerges. No mass, no matter, no stars, no planets, no chemistry, no biology, no people. I don’t believe it was ever considered part of inflation theory.
The Big Bang theory of cosmology is accepted by scientists because they have satellite pictures of it taken shortly after it took place. The light has been distorted somewhat over 13.7 billion years but its quite measurable. Scientists call it the surface of last scattering or Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).
They were able to measure the CMB temperature and found that it was nearly identical everywhere. This was a problem because it was too widely dispersed in space to have allowed the temperature to equalize over such a large region. Alan Guth figured this could be explained if it had started out much smaller and expanded rapidly. He calculated the expansion rate and called this inflation theory. Later scientists confirmed that his theory agreed with the CMB temperature maps they had made using the WMAP satellite.
In quantum theory anything that isn’t forbidden must occur. If inflation happened once it must be an eternal process creating multiple universes with various physical laws. In some of these conscious beings have evolved to appreciate their good fortune.
And there are those that the Bible’s theorem is unbelievable. “In the Beginning, God created Earth.”
Makes as much sense as a buffalo theory (Hee Hee bosun?)
It’s been a long day and I’ve just finished (I hope) with this years tax return, so I’m a little punchy.