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On the Big Bang: We know from the observed laws of physics that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and that an object at rest will stay at rest unless some outside force acts upon it. If all of the matter and energy in the universe were sitting for a presumably infinite period of time in an inert state (at rest), with an infinite density, and infinite amount of gravity holding it all together, (essentially the biggest singularity or black hole you could imagine) and suddently exploded (or expanded, depending on how you describe it), that would by the laws of physics have to be a reaction to something that acted upon it, since the singularity was by definition at rest before the 'big bang'. Since the amount of gravity holding the entirity of the mass of the universe in one singularity is presumably infinite or incalculably massive, the force to act upon it to break that gravity would also have to be infinite or incalculably massive (since every action has an EQUAL and opposite reaction, the big bang being the reaction). In addition, time would theoretically stand still in this infinitely large and dense black hole, so something outside the constraints of time would have to act upon it to create the reaction described (the explosion or expansion of the universe). Science clearly points to a 'big bang' of some kind starting the universe that we see, the question is, how did it happen? There's only one force I know of that is infinitely powerful and outside the constraints of space-time.