[biblewonk]

I'd love to know what theory you propose that does a better job incorporating the observable features of the CMB into it

Are you saying that I have to make up a natural explaination for my existance and the existance of the universe? It is impossible. What caused the big bang?

[BikerNYC]

Are you saying that I have to make up a natural explaination for my existance and the existance of the universe?

A natural explanation for your existence is that you are the result of fertilization when your parents had intercourse.

As far as the universe goes, that is one of cosmology's missions.

It is impossible.

Can you prove that? Do you want scientitsts to simply stop looking at the CMB and stop thinking about where it came from? Science is supposed to look for naturalistic explanations for things. That's its job.

What caused the big bang?

To ask the question presumes that the Big Bang had a cause. If you look at randomness as a quantum mechanical quality, I'm not convinced it did.

But to suggest that Galileo was wrong for looking through his telescope to see that the phases of Venus helped establish the heliocentric model of the solar system because he did not know where the Sun was in relation to everything else is ridiculous.

[Oberon]

What caused the big bang?

A voice said "...Now."

Beyond that, I have no comment. =]

I do find it fascinating that, as you wind the BBT (Big Bang Theory) back to time t=0, you arrive at a point where all the contents of the universe are in a single point source of zero volume and infinite density... and going to time t=-1 femtosecond brings us entirely into the unknown.

I find no qualitative difference between these conjectures and the metaphysical. Of course, that doesn't disprove either one.

[MHGinTN]

What caused the big bang? 23 posted on 12/20/2002 1:31 PM EST by biblewonk
Let ... THERE (right there, where/when the bubble began the expansion) ... be light. The Creator issued the command that brought about a conjunction of space and time, two of His dimensional qualities, and started the entire shebang. Later, much later by our reckoning, He involved another of His dimensional qualities, LIFE, and the lifeless took on awareness. Even later, He issued another integration of a dimensional quality He possesses, and spirit entered into the mixes of dimensional expressions.