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Originally posted by Mel
It's hard to get my mind around, how big the universe is, and the possibility that it had always been there. They had to come up with a theory because they just couldn't accept that something had always existed and always will. There was always life and will always be a spark of it left.
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Well I presume by "they" you are referring to the scientific community.
It is worth noting that pre-Hawking the generally accepted version of events was a "steady-state" universe; one that had always existed and one that always will.
The big bang theory was opposed mainly because the motivations behind those pushing it the most were largely religious. (Until Hawking and Penrose came along and did the mathematical work behind it and showed that it could in fact work, and there is plenty of evidence for it today)
So claiming that the big-bang theory is merely scientists trying to get around a problem which is apparently adequately explained by religion is wonderfully ironic.
