@FBM,
FBM wrote:Who gives a ****, except you? If you're not defending the alien/ILF/god-thingy-of-the-gaps claim.
This is not a claim. This is a hypothesis, a hypothetical situation, a set of possible case scenarios ... about the assumptions of the Big Bang/God/something else creating the Universe (if it has not always existed).
Where is the claim? You simply don't understand something. The real claim is that before the Big Bang there might have existed several possibilities for the assumptions - but they are unknowable, for you cannot infer on backtrack the assumptions and after that to justify your straight inference on the grounds of the very same assumptions. This is as if to raise yourself by catching you with the hand to the hair. Physics does not work that way, space does not work that way and time does not work that way.