[DallasMike]

Personally, I'm in wonder at the prospect that there is exactly the right amount of matter in the universe to create a "big bang" and not a bit more.

I'm sorry, but you don't understand the Big Bang theory at all. There was no universe before the Big Bang. There was no matter, there was no space, there was no time. There was absolutely nothing.

Sounds a lot like the Bible, doesn't it?

[Philo-Junius]

The Big Bang CREATED time.

One cannot in ANY scientific sense speak of “before the Big Bang;” it’s a nonsense phrase like “sucked into a vacuum,” or “letting the cold out.”

That’s why the Bible had to begin “In principio...”

There is—by definition—no time before that.

[GodGunsGuts]

==Sounds a lot like the Bible, doesn’t it?

When you read the fine print, no it doesn’t sound at all like the Bible. It’s sounds like a theory that was hatched by a bunch of God-haters hellbent on duping the masses into believing that the Earth is not a special place created by God.

[SampleMan]

I'm sorry, but you don't understand the Big Bang theory at all. There was no universe before the Big Bang. There was no matter, there was no space, there was no time. There was absolutely nothing.

No space? Space being nothing, that would be no nothing. How does one quantify that? I think I've got the Big Bang down very well. It requires a critical amount of something to start it and that something has to be attracted to itself, thus all in one spot.