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palou said:
WolfpackN64 said:

It's not a misconception, It's a very plausable hypothesis even pushed by the late Stephen Hawking himself.

It's one model, of many, which can't be verified in any way. Basing an argument on that seems a little dubious. 

 

Regardless, I fail to see how one consequently would need to conclude in god. The strength of the model comes from the very fact that it creates no issues. Could you elaborate? 

In a chain of contingent beings (that can cause effects and have effects caused on them) there must be in the beginning a necessary being that can cause effects, but is not caused itself. Since the Big Bang is a contingent event, that would still not explain the universe. But this is and remains a metaphysical argument, not definitive proof of anything.