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Originally Posted by thaskalos
I, personally, will accept the "big bang theory" when science tells me what existed before the big bang.
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Science speculates on possibilities. Understanding infinity is another matter.
So do other religions consider
Infinity of the cosmos in very different ways than the Abrahamic traditions. Pantheism is an alternative in understanding infinity
According to Carl Sagan:
"The Hindu religion is the only one of the world's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long, longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_model
A cyclic model (or oscillating model) is any of several cosmological models in which the universe follows infinite, or indefinite, self-sustaining cycles. For example, the oscillating universe theory briefly considered by Albert Einstein in 1930 theorized a universe following an eternal series of oscillations, each beginning with a big bang and ending with a big crunch; in the interim, the universe would expand for a period of time before the gravitational attraction of matter causes it to collapse back in and undergo a bounce.
