Nope. Time and matter were created out of energy. The rest are by products of those interactions. So while I do believe the big bang occurred, I disagree with your characterization of it. And nothing proves or even points to an intelligent designer. I.D. is just a BS middle ground for apologists.

I don't necessarily accept but can see an argument for evolution over 3 or 4 billion years, but this is asking me to believe that the entire universe randomly formed and organized in one second, with all the laws in place. Do they have a Charles Darwin character with a theory for that?

While it seems improbably, I thing that for an intelligence to exist without a simpler preceding form, like the Big Bang, to be far, far more improbable. Given that we know the Uni9verse exists, something like the Big Bang is the best bet. In other words, I find the Big Band the simplest available explanation for the universe as I see it. Any other explanation is so much more unlikely that it requires massive amounts of evidence to prove it.

I wonder which came first ... the chicken or the egg.

The only model for anything that complicated happening to non biological things, starting from scratch, has always involved intelligent beings.

(Hebrews 3:4) Of course, every house is constructed by someone, but he that constructed all things is God. Too many things have to fit. And that takes planning.

Scientifically the answer is indeed ... 'why not.'

Nope, I believe in the bible so I've got the card of belief on my side, as for science the big band theory just screws up it's own logic on the equation for the theory.

Nope. . I don't believe it happened that way. Everything come from nothing is misconception propagated by creationists in order to make their own story seem more plausible. . A few modern ideas that scientists discuss are appended (and this is a short list not to be intended as comprehensive). . Any time an intelligent person hears "everything from nothing" they should ignore everything else. . The new study suggests that the universe that came before our own... http://www.physorg.com/news126955971.html . http://plus.maths.org/.../index.html http://www.universetoday.com/.../ http://www.superstringtheory.com/cosmo/cosmo4.html http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/bigbang.htm http://www.superstringtheory.com/

This is one of those really unanswerable questions outside of the context of 'faith' - whichever side of the fence you're on. ;-)

If you call all known universe as ‘the creation’, it surely came into existence somehow. [The proof is in the pudding!] But instantaneous creation doesn’t prove ‘continued’ existence of a ‘creator’. Also a ‘causative force’ can be inanimate (nuclear fission, fire, or steam!). It is not the same as an intelligent ‘designer-creator’. Or else Influenza virus would take the credit as ‘the creator of flu’! (An animal roasted in wildfire tasted better than raw meat, but this doesn’t mean the fire ‘cooked the beast’ to some ‘intelligent recipe’!) According to present state of knowledge BIG BANG is the starting point of universe, and EVOLUTION explains all then-after. Earth, surface water, DNA and so on. An unknown and now UN-KNOWABLE causative force* set off the 'Big Bang' and left it to evolve without ANY further interference. Prof. Richard Dawkins calls it* “Einstein's God”. *If one called that ‘now UN-KNOWABLE causative force’ as ‘the creator-god’, it must be extinct by definition, as the force was ‘spent’ in the ‘creation’ of this universe. Thus ‘the creator-god’ must also be an atheist entity, which set off the ‘Big Bang’ and disappeared, leaving it to evolve naturally without any further ‘active interference’, guidance, or ‘commandments’. When early man, --just one of the billion ‘products of evolution’-- had spare time to think about why day-night, why seasons, why rain-drought, what’s ‘origin of universe’, etc., originally all gaps in knowledge were plugged by a superpower: ‘god’. * People searching for god[s] don’t know the ‘player’ has left. They believe the ‘creator god’ is watching us from its hiding somewhere and the game of 'hide and seek' is still on!

No scientist claims that everything came from nothing. They simply understand that if you reverse the observed expansion of the universe, at 13.5-14bya, everything, would have been concentrated in a single point. Science currently is not currently equipped to explain what happened before 10^-37 seconds after the big bang. Before that, it's anyone's guess. That's what the various attempts to unify gravity and general relativity with quantum physics and the other 3 forces are about (Quantum Gravity Theory, String/M-Theory). Billions were spent building the Large Hadron Collider as scientists just can't get the data they need to answer questions about the big bang and the known unknown areas in theoretical physics with current atom smashers. Science is also not in the business of assuming non-naturalistic explanations. There already is an answer to the claim "everything is so well designed that it had to of been designed by an intelligence." It's answered effectively by the Strong Anthropic Principle: "Everything in the universe happened the way it did, because if it didn't, we wouldn't be here to ask the question." This suggests that there may have been an infinite number of other universes with a variety of other initial conditions before/after/at the same time as this one. It doesn't matter though as we got the conditions that allow us to exist in this one, and that's why we're here. If it didn't happen that way, then we wouldn't be here. In this way, there doesn't have to be a special creator or intelligence tailoring the universe for us. We are a statistical anomaly that is bound to happen in a multiverse of infinite universes.