Astrophysicist: The Big Bang says nothing about how the cosmos came to be

At Big Think:

We are often told that the Big Bang is a theory of cosmic creation. But in reality, cosmology says nothing about how the cosmos came to be. The Big Bang Theory is remarkably successful at describing what happened after the beginning, providing a detailed roadmap for how a super-high-temperature, super-high-density Universe expanded and cooled. – University of Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank (March 9, 2023)

Has Frank just given away the store to theists? The situation is exactly what we would expect if the cosmos is designed by a supernatural intelligence. We can learn how it works but the inventor exists and works at a higher level. We get only scattered, partial insights as to that.

From C.S. Lewis (1898–1963):

This, and perhaps this alone, fits in with the fact that Nature, though not apparently intelligent, is intelligible—that events in the remotest parts of space appear to obey the laws of rational thought. Even the act of creation itself presents none of the intolerable difficulties which seem to meet us on every other hypothesis… – C.S. Lewis, Miracles (New York: Touchstone, 1996), pp. 45–47

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