[biblewonk]

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.

That's the funniest piece of "science" I've ever heard. You must be blushing. First there was no space, no time and no matter and then for no reason at all it all exploded into a universe. Wonderful. And you want schools to teach kids that but take down all references to the God of the bible, not any of the other gods though. OK maybe you aren't a Christianity hater like so many other materialists. But calling that pap science and calling Christianity and Creationism the antithesis(sp) of science, which so many do, is just plain rediculous.

[BikerNYC]

First there was no space, no time and no matter and then for no reason at all it all exploded into a universe.

Go read a good book on quantum mechanics and then come back prepared to talk about it.

[RightWhale]

for no reason at all it all exploded into a universe

There is very good reason. The more recent thinking has produced the idea that BBs are happening all the time, and that each BB cuts itself off immediately and completely from its parent structure. There are an infinite number of universes and an infinite number coming into being each instant. This happens as relief to stress in the cosmos and it will never end. Our own personal BB ocurred 14 billion years ago. Nothing special. Current thought on the subject.