We think of our accounts of the universe and cosmology as well-founded and value-free. The Big Bang theory is surely one of those. But critics argue this is not the case. It was first put forward by a Catholic priest and physicist, Georges Lemaître, who initially called it the ‘hypothesis of the primeval atom’ — the primeval atom being created by God. As the originator of cosmic inflation theory, Alan Guth, points out the Big Bang says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.