“You would think most “anti-Christian” scientists would reject the big bang for that very reason.”
Hoyle and a couple of others tried arguing for an eternal, steady state universe. But I think they run into something called Olber’s paradox- the night sky would not be dark in such a universe.
The problem is that the Big Bang does not completely resolve Olber’s Paradox, it just makes things a little calmer. The night sky is bright, but not in wavelengths our eyes can see.