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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PaulR" data-source="post: 975273" data-attributes="member: 176256">Well, the first thing I would say is that the evidence points towards there being a big bang.  What do you believe in if you don't think that it's correct?The inflationary period proposed happened before the first second had passed.  The theories proposed suggest that instead of the four dimensions we now know there were more which collapsed as inflation happened.  Don't forget that there was no matter at that time; it was too hot for that and everything was energy.As HB says, the theories that have been proposed are those that seem to explain the universe.  They are open to being replaced by something that explains things better.</blockquote>