Quote Originally Posted by Pahu78

Again, this evidence must lead one to conclude that there was a beginning of the universe.


[From When Skeptics Ask by Geisler & Brooks]


to the contrary, if this is just a cycle, if this happens repeatedly, we cannot know how long this has been happening, or what initiated the cycle!


all evidence is sucked into a singularity only to explode out again, completely annihilating any evidence of the past, between the last big bang and big crunch.


also assuming there is a big crunch.