The Big Bang argues for a creator, not against one, so this guy is totally misguided. If the universe didn't spring into existence (as the Big Bang theory suggests), then it is eternal and uncreated. This was a common view of the universe until the 20th century.
The kalaam argument for God goes something like this:
Everything that begins to exist has a cause.
The universe began to exist.
Therefore, the universe has a cause.
Of course, there is speculation about what that cause might be. Anyway, until the last century, the second statement ("The universe began to exist") was hotly contested, but now the idea that the universe sprang into existence somehow is pretty well established.
You can call this the Big Bang regardless of what you think its cause was.
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The Big Bang argues for a creator, not against one, so this guy is totally misguided. If the universe didn't spring into existence (as the Big Bang theory suggests), then it is eternal and uncreated. This was a common view of the universe until the 20th century.
The kalaam argument for God goes something like this:
Of course, there is speculation about what that cause might be. Anyway, until the last century, the second statement ("The universe began to exist") was hotly contested, but now the idea that the universe sprang into existence somehow is pretty well established.
You can call this the Big Bang regardless of what you think its cause was.