Human observations and explanations. Hardly a 'powerful explanation' given our position within it...and as we can honestly admit - the explanation doesn't include what the object was or why it was there and how it could contain the whole of the material universe within it...or why we should believe the explanations of the observations are true.
To believe that explanation is true, is to believe in magical thinking - there are better ways to explain it than the one way which has become popular to the human imagination which does not want to believe that godidit but is happy to accept some other magical explanation
Only if you ignore the enormous amount of research that contains the data and explanations to show the Big Bang is a plausible and evidence theory for the beginning of the universe.
It points to the weakness of your stance that the only way to maintain it is to pretend that science hasn't addressed these concerns.
No, it's not. Magical thinking relies on supernatural powers and entities for it to work. The BB Theory does not. That you equate the two again demonstrates your deep ignorance of the work that has gone into supporting the BB Theory.
Indeed!
Some people (probably incorrectly) think that the Big Bang came from nothing, and they do not like this idea because they cannot conceive of how this might have happened. The facts are that we don't know that it did because we cannot know what the condition of the Universe was at T=0. However, we do have a very good idea of what it's condition was shortly afterwards..... very shortly afterwards.
At T≈10
-32 seconds, the universe was smaller than the Planck distance of 10
-35 metres and was at a temperature that was the equivalent of 10
27 Kelvin. AIUI (others will correct me if I am wrong) the decay of the inflation field resulted in the Standard Model of particles - 12 fermions consisting of 6 quarks (up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom) and 6 Leptons (electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, Tau, Tau neutrino) and 4 Bosons (gluon, photon, W and Z).
By T≈10
-11 seconds, the universe had expanded and cooled to energy densities such that we can duplicate them by smashing atoms together in particle accelerators such as those at CERN, Fermilab and Brookhaven. The four fundamental forces (strong force, weak force, electromagnetic force, and gravitational force) which had initially been a single force, had separated.
By T≈10
-12 seconds the Higgs field condensed out and the elementary particles, which before then had been massless and were travelling at C, began to interact with the Higgs Field, and it was this interaction that gave them mass.
So, how do we know all this? We know because it has been tested and tested and tested in particle acceleartors all over the world, over and over again, and observations made by scientific instruments have yielded results that have been repeated, and repeated over and over again. Even when they have yielded new discoveries and never before seen results, those results have not conflicted with previous results, they have added to our knowledge and often confirmed long held theories. That's what happened when the Higgs Boson was finally discovered in 2012... it confirmed a theory that had been first proposed almost 50 years earlier in 1964!!!
This is not "magical thinking". This is the rigorously tested, repeatable, falsifiable and observed scientific evidence we have that the universe began according to the ΛCDM model. Its the best evidence we have.
Now, what is the evidence for goddidit? Well, its nothing more than the 2000 year-old fantastical scribblings of a few itinerant goat herders with vivid imaginations - not testable, not observable, not falsifiable! The very definition of magical thinking.
