[js1138]

Prior to the big bang, there must have been something to go BANG, and there must have been some mighty force to ignite that something that went bang.

This logic cannot be applied to first causes for the simple reason that you are merely pushing back the origins question. If God existed prior to the Big Bang, how did God originate?

The only honest answer is that no one knows. The same answer a scientist would give to the origin of existence.

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

As a Taoist, I believe that there is a force in the universe, and beyond, that is incomprehensable and eternal and attempts to quantify it is nonsensical. Everything issues from it and everything returns to it. This is the only "leap of faith" required in my belief and excludes total randomness.