[RightInEastLansing]

Do you believe the Big Bang is laughable as well. The whole universe created instaneuosly out of nothing? Sounds reasonable to me. Besides I am sure the scientific community has reams of data supporting the notion of a "natural" Big Bang process.

[Ignatius J Reilly]

Do you believe the Big Bang is laughable as well. The whole universe created instaneuosly out of nothing?

I thought this was a discussion about evolution but I'll bite. There are many speculations about the early tiomes of the universe, one is that the big bang did not come out of nothing but was a changing of form from a,b,c to time space and matter, what the a,bc (I simplify here) is is uncertain and many think unknowable (could be God.) Another is the big bang big crunch, ie that the last big bang was the result of a contracting universe and that some day far in the future this will happen again. There are many great lay-mans books on the topic with several ideas as to mechanism if you are interested.