Re:and the debate goes on and on and on (Score 1)

Obviously not a philosopher......you forget that as for explaining everything out of nothing there is no theory. No one has ever said that there was nothing before the Big Bang because it would be philosophically preposterous. There was always some force that acted on another force. Where on earth (or in heaven) did these forces come from. If there was nothing then there was no energy. And if there was energy before the Big Bang then it would have to be eternal and self-sustaining to not need another theory to explain it. Eternal and self sustaining sounds a lot like a monotheistic God to me.