-> SM> This theoretical discovery has led some cosmologists to say
-> SM> that the universe could have been created by a chance
-> SM> fluctuation in space-time.  In the words of physicist Frank
-> SM> Wilczyk, "The reason there is something instead of nothing
-> SM> is that 'nothing' is unstable."

This primeval explosion is supposed to have resulted in a uniform radial
expansion of energy and matter. One of the most basic conservation laws of
physics is the principle of conservation of angular momentum, which,
states, among other things, that uniform radial motion could never give
rise to curvilinear motion.

How, then, could the linearly expanding gas
soon be converted into orbiting galaxies and planetary systems??!!!

As I said before the "Big Bang" flatly contradicts the Second Law of
Thermodynamics.

Sir Fred Hoyle and many others have rejected the Big Bang theory. As
Weisskoph has said:

        "No existing view of the development of the cosmos is completely
satisfactory, and this includes the standard model, which leads to certain
fundamental questions and problems." -V.P. Weisskoph, "The Origins of the
Universe", American Scientist 1983.

The oscillating-universe idea is also being abandoned.

As what appears to be a desperate attempt to escape the creationist
implications of genuine cosmogony, a new wave of cosmo-physicists has
offered what you call the "inflationary" Big Bang.

This nonsense suggests that the universe
(including all of space and time) began as a
infinitesimal particle which inflated to a grapefruit size in its first
instant of existence. This initial "cold big swoosh" was then supposedly
followed by the standard "hot big bang.

What about the initial particle-sized universe??? Two of the originators of
this concept have an answer:

        "It is then tempting to go one step further and speculate that the
         entire universe evolved from literally nothing."

Tryon conjectures:

        ".. that our universe had its physical origin as a quantum
         fluctuation of some pre-existing true vacuum, or state of
         nothingness."  -Edward Tryon, "What Made the World" New
         Scientist,84

Therefore ones choice finally boils down to the following: Evolution ex
nihilo or Creation ex Deo. The choice used to be: "Eternal Matter" or
Eternal God." Now it has become: Omnipotent Nothingness" or Omnipotent
Creator."

"In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth."