Trivia Can science explain what triggered the Big Bang in the absence of divine intervention?

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No, it cannot - at this time at least.

But to ask the question shows a misunderstanding of science.
Particularly, it ignores the fact that science and religion work in opposite directions.

Science works from the bottom.
It starts by trying to explain the most obvious, everyday things.
Why water runs downhill, what the wind is, and so on.
As it learns more, and develops more instruments, it spreads out to understanding bigger things, such as the stars and the universe we can see.
But there is never any expectation of finding an ultimate answer, a first cause for everything.
The more we understand, the more unknowns we find.

Whereas religion works from the top.
It attempts to start with the big picture, the Cause of Life, the Universe and Everything, as Douglas Adams put it.
And having found that Cause, to work how we humans should fit into it.
But it starts with an assumption: that there is a Cause.
And there is then a further assumption that such a Cause is comprehensible to humans, and in some way humans are at least a tiny bit relevant to it.

We may one day discover what triggered the Big Bang.
But that will still leave us with an another unanswered question: what caused that thing that triggered the Big Bang?