Quote:SaintPeterI would still dispute the notion it was a beginning, since by definition time must exist before something can begin. It is simply a fact that when we encounter paradigm shifting ideas, our language often has to catch up. Though I have seen enough theists and apologists leap on the idea of a beginning, to misrepresent it as an argument for a deity.
The Big Bang Theory was first proposed by a Belgian Catholic Priest named Fr. Georges Lemaitre. At the time, it was attacked by some Atheists, who disliked its implications of a temporal beginning of the Universe, as smacking too much and being reminiscent of Divine Creation; but today, it is the most widely accepted theory in Cosmology.
If the big bang theory really represented scientific evidence for a deity, then one would expect elite physicists to universally hold a belief in a deity, and the evidence is that atheism is far higher among elite scientists than among the general population. This never seems to deter many religious apologists from misrepresenting science as evidencing a deity though, while simultaneously and ironically cherry picking scientific facts to reject of course, when those facts refute their religious beliefs in any way.
