unlearningmistakes - Hi!<br /><br />Yes, progress in science does require unlearning mistakes - nice user name!<br /><br />The most popular version of big bang theory, involvolving a brief early period of faster than light (<br />FTL) expansion, does explain much of what is observed scientifically. <br /><br />The big bang also does not explain many things.<br /><br />As you note, it does not explain where the singularity at the origin came from.<br /><br />It also does not explain where the laws governing our universe came from - i.e. why there is law and order.<br /><br />It also does not explain why the 4 forces of physics (gravity, weak nuclear, strong nuclear, electromagnetic radiation) are fine tune to allow for stars, and life, to exist.<br /><br />A number of scientists believe this and other awesome properties of our universe are evidences of intelligent design.<br /><br />"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" - Genesis 1:1<br /><br />We agree that science proves our universe (heaven) had a beginning, and note:<br /><br />"What is supposed to have caused the big bang itself? No less an authority than Andrei Linde, one of the originators of the very popular inflationary version of the big bang theory, frankly admits that the standard theory does not address this fundamental question. “The first, and main, problem is the very existence of the big bang,” he says. “One may wonder, What came before? If space-time did not exist then, how could everything appear from nothing? . . . Explaining this initial singularity—where and when it all began—still remains the most intractable problem of modern cosmology.” - "Awake!," 1/22/96, p. 6