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> that cannot be pushed aside. Science is getting closer, each generation,
> to figuring out the nature of the big bang, but what came before it is to
> broad a scope to figure out (thus I'm open minded toward a deity).
Have to pick a nit. The concept of "before the big bang" is nonsensical. The Big Bang is the beginning of *the Universe*, in all its dimensions, one of which is *time*. One event preceeding another, such that one thing is before the other, requires time that extends at least as far as these two events.
So asking what came before the big bang is like drawing a 6 inch line on a piece of paper and then moving left on the line past its left-most end but still staying on the line. It can't be done, by definition, just like statements about what came "before the Big Bang" don't make any sense.
Physicist aren't bothered by this definciency in the theory, if you see it as such, because it's a human mind/language limitation. That is why we use mathematics.
Big Bang's first 3 minutes: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
Matt
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