Thought - The Big Bang Theory

I'm no scientist.  And I'm no philosopher.  I'm not extremely educated, I don't claim to know all the answers, nor am I in perfect harmony with nature and its secrets.  I don't know if any of the various multitude of religions are true, I don't know what happens after we die, and I don't know where we came from.  All I have to go on are my own experiences, logic, feelings, and assumptions.

With that said, there is something I believe in with no proof whatsoever, and that's a higher power.  Call it God, god, gods, spirits, who cares.  I believe that there is something out there that I cannot understand and that started life.  I believe evolution is most likely true, the big bang theory is probably right, there could be life on some other planet, and that the universe is currently expanding.  But to me those are just good guesses.  The only truth I think I know about life is that some power began it.

Now, some Christians have a hard time coming to terms with evolution, the big bang theory, and parts of science as a whole.  They feel that these supposed facts threaten their beliefs.  As a person who thinks there is a god, I've always had trouble understanding this.  To me, science is not the pursuit of discrediting religion.  Science is an attempt to understand the world around us, as are most base religions.  Humans need answers, we just look for them in different places.

Let's say the big bang theory is true.  How does this disprove any religion?  Couldn't a god have started the universe in such a way, knowing that life would spring eventually?  Why did he have to literally breath life into an individual human?  And it's a false belief that scientists and philosophers are constantly out to prove that there is no god.  Many of the famous ancient philosophers not only believed in a god but thought that they could prove it through the use of logic.  And I agree; each effect has a cause, even if we can't see it.  What created the universe?  A bang.  What created the bang?  Aliens.  What created the aliens?  Evolution.  What created the alien planet?  A bang.  What created that bang? Other aliens.  Whatever the steps, you always come back to the question of 'who started it?'  I think the answer is some higher power.  If the world started with a bang something had to light the fuse.  Who or what did it?  No one knows and no one ever will.  We have a hard time leaving it at that; we're a curious species.  But we may never find the answer, and we may just have to live with that.