There are hypothesis, but no working theories. For a theory you need evidence, and there is none. According to the standard model, there was no space or time prior to the Big Bang (which also means there was no ‘prior’). Quantum fluctuations take place in space-time, so what created space-time itself? But there are those who say space-time has always existed at least on the Planck scale, or it oscillates between expansion and collapse infinitely, etc; or it was a collision between two higher-dimensional universes. Or with just as much validity you could say God created it. With no observational evidence, science can make no absolute claims.
Agreed. All explanations are hypotheses at this point.
Great explanation. I think what has caused the animosity between science and religion is that for most of recorded history people subscribed everything to the supernatural. Then science comes along and says, no diseases are caused by germs and viruses not demons. Weather patterns are caused by natural occurrences not by the god(s) being angry.
Even now there are people that believe the earth is only 6,000-4,000 years old. Even though all the evidence we have from science(and I mean all the sciences;biology, chemistry, geology, and physics) says it’s much older.
I don’t see how science could ever prove the existence or non-existence of a god or gods through science. It has to be taken on faith.