"by faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear" Hebrews 11 v 3.

What?? Incomprehensible, pious sounding gobbledegook!

Anyway, pete, I'm willing to go along with the scientific consensus because I'm not a practising astrophysicist. Holding some sort of 'faith-based' position because I've read a few articles in 'New Scientist' and a few popular science paperbacks would be absurd! As far as I'm concerned, the jury is out on how the Universe came about - but there seems to be more evidence for a point source followed by expansion than anything else. I suppose there might be an outside chance (probability = 0.0000000000000 ... 0001%) that it was all created by some big beardy bloke in the sky - but there is no evidence for such an occurrence (a load of pious gobbledegook in an old book doesn't count as scientific evidence). And if that was the case, to the non-indoctrinated, enquiring mind, it raises more questions than it answers!