So... Call the Big Bang an act of God and as everything needs to be called something, you have God.

I could run with that, same as using the "God did it" as a colloquial way of saying we haven't got a decent working hypothesis for something yet.

But do that... And it doesn't half set some hares running. Superstition requires lack of rational thought to be effective. Call something God and you aren't doing them any favours encouraging the buggers.

Beardedbruce. Just two things need tidying up in my opinion. You assert that Big Bang is cyclic. The evidence base for this is far more hypothetical than Big Bang per se. Your need for a priori assumes something prior to Big Bang, yet our best estimate to date puts time itself as a product of Big Bang, so there was nothing before, no need for any priori. There was no prior.

If you need something prior, make it prior to something other than Big Bang.