What to say when somebody asks about the big bang

[popeyespappy]

What do I say when somebody asks me about the Big Bang theory?

Tell them you don’t believe in the big bang. Tell them you believe the Big Bang theory as modified by inflation is the cosmological model that most cosmologists think offers the best explanation for the current observations. Tell them it isn’t the only possibility just the one that currently offers the best explanation for the evolution of the universe. Tell them that if/when more data becomes available to us that points to some other explanation the Big Bang theory can be modified or replaced with something that explains the observations more accurately.

As far as what caused the big bang tell them we don’t know, but there are other possibilities besides god.