The big bang

But that's wrong, it's still popular among physicists, especially the smart ones.

Besides, only the 5th topic in the link is about string theory. The rest is general cosmology.

Well that begs the question of what caused this higher power to be. The only response I've heard to that is that the higher power just "is", to which I say, if we're doing that then why can't the start of the big bang just "be"?

I'm not saying either of those positions are right or wrong but there is no reason to put one above the other.

Not debunked, it's just currently untestable

What is the "Higher Power"

Is our universe some aliens science project?
If there is a god, why hasn't it acknowledged itself?

I would recommend not pondering this topic too much, you may cause yourself to fall into depression. Who knows, maybe the answer is extremely easy, and someone will find it in less than a day, but until then, we don't know.

>The only response I've heard to that is that the higher power just "is",
Well yes exactly, the Islamic version of God says he/she/it has always just existed. The start of the big bang can't just 'be' in the same way because we instinctively expect everything in our empirical understanding to operate on laws that are observable. You may be right about not putting one above the other, but I just feel there is more logical reason to *not* want to accept that the very thing that gave 'birth' to the universe we exist in could operate any differently to that same universe. Maybe that's limited thinking. I don't fucking know.
I was only referring to the 5th topic, I will check through the whole site.
>If there is a god, why hasn't it acknowledged itself?
It has, in some manner, even though we may want to say that manner is not how it 'should' be. At least this is what I used to believe.

>you may cause yourself to fall into depression
What the fuck, user? What the fuck kind of copout pussy response is that? Man the fuck up.

I swear physicists will find something wrong with their forever expanding model and they'll revert back to a cyclic model. Then again I don't really understand how tiny fluctuations in temperature in the cosmic microwave background shows it has to be quantum fluctuations ultimately supporting inflation.

Chances are if you are an autismo who demands an answer and you ask a question that has no answer, then you will waste much time of your life trying to find it.

>and you ask a question that has no answer
That is really some defeatist shit.
But nah, I get on with life and ponder these things in my quiet moments. Life, to me, is meant to be lived and enjoyed.

I see what you're getting at, everything in the universe follows some kind of cause and effect thing but as far as we know that only applies to the contents of the universe, not the whole thing. For all we know the universe could just start or always have been.

>as far as we know that only applies to the contents of the universe, not the whole thing
This is what isn't completely certain or proved yet, hence the doubt.