[Withano]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

This is also the crux of religion though; the idea that if we don't have an explanation for something, we must invent one. That one of the already proposed solutions must be the correct one. Which is actually highly unlikely. Where does this idea come from that if someone isn't religious, or is actively anti-religious, they automatically "must believe in the big bang theory"?

The only reasonable standpoint, as far as I see it, is that we simply have to accept that we do not know or understand the origins of space and time. They are beyond us. We just don't know. But then people take that to mean, "and so a religion could be right!" which is simply ludicrous. It is essentially the idea that, out of infinite possibility, in an infinite and unknowable universe, some humans in the last few thousand years managed to straight up guess the truth, and beyond all logic, the truth is a collection of human-centric concepts? Bizarre.

And the bit in bold will always be the conclusion, wouldn't it. Glenn's whole 'people who don't agree with my -also- statistically unlikely theory are all stupid' little gig he's got going on there is ridiculous and ego-driven
I'd say the same to a devout religious nut that dismisses all other theories
You don't know your theory has any value to it at all, until and unless you do - stop being a dick
You have faith in your theory, that's cute. Stop trying to push it on others. Gather all the information in the world if you must, the conclusion will always be inconclusive.