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Attitude to Religion and its believers.
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The one thing that still remains unclear with regards to science and god is the big bang.
The way I have heard it explained is that before the big bang there was nothing.
Which to my mind becomes:
This does not make sense to me, how can nothing explode?
So there are three categories of answer to this question:
A. There was something before the big bang which exploded, though this offeres not explanation of how the thing that exploded came into existance, I have heard theories about how the universe is cyclical and how it will eventually collapse into a new big bang, but that doesn't answer the queation about the first big bang.
B. God exists and triggered the big bang, that means that the god entity exists outside of our universe.
C. We are just a highly advanced simulator, the big bang was the the program starting our simulation.
There is no rule that says the universe must make sense to human beings. In fact the more we learn about it - subatomic particles, quantum mechanics, the multiverse, etc. the stranger it becomes and the less it appears to operate in ways that are intuitive to our primitive primate brains.
Hell, even space and time might not be fundamental properties, and could themselves be abstractions which emerge from an even deeper underlying reality...
All of which is to say your list should have an extra option:
D. Who The Fuck Knows?
That's fair.
I was about to add that option, but forgot about it.
I guess what makes me annoyed about it is that we know that the big bang happened, but we don't know what triggered it or what was before.
It's more like what happened before big bang has no consequences to what happened after. Because this, we have little idea what happened before because there's no direct evidence.
That is a new way of putting it that I have not heard before, I like it, it doesn't answer my questions as much as defecting them. It forces me to realize thsybit doesn't matter.