its funny how people use "big bang" in their argument against religion when in fact the maker of that theory was more religious than all of you combined. any theory that did not include some sort of creation would go against his beliefs. Its cute that people thing the universe had a creation. Most people have no concept of true infinity. Expanding redshift is easily explained when you talk about it in a localized pattern. And apparent expansion is easily explained when you realize the viewer (us) is rotating on multiple axises surrounded by other celestial bodies rotating on multiple axises.... relative motion. Recently astronomers have found an exploding star that is 13 billion light years away. That star would have had to form, live out its life, and then explode...all in less than 500 million years according to that theory in order for us to see that explosion today. If you do believe in the "big bang", its better to think about the 13.5 billion years since supposed "creation" not as an age, but as a time since the instant of last total collapse. As a true "creation" is hysterical.

Proud atheist/agnostic