Not so "uncontested." Leading astronomers like Hoyle, Wickramasinghe, Alfven and Arp reject it for very substantial reasons. The Big Bang theorists themselves have been compelled, by accumulating observational evidence contradicting their expectations, to postulate *two* unobserved and unobservable classes of matter--"Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy"--without which the Big Bang theory collapses. So what right do Big Bang theorists have to complain against those who postulate an unobserved and unobservable "Intelligent Designer" as originator of the physical universe?
Shane Mage
"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)