And, here, we see the other people who are skeptical of admitting the Big Bang was "In the beginning" because they would have to concede the first verse of Genesis actually is literally true.
Well no not exactly kofh2u. The 'In the beginning' part is ok. It is the 'God created...' part that is unsupported. If the first verse of Genesis said something more like what Steven Weinberg said,
quote:
At about one-hundredth of a second, the earliest time about
which we can speak with any confidence, the temperature of
the universe was about a hundred thousand million (10^11)
degrees Centigrade.
then I think that even the most sceptical would have to take notice. Weinberg said what he said at the end of half a life times worth of accumulating bits of verifying information and not at the end of a vision quest in the desert. Furthermore, the information that he was accumulating had been verified by thousands before him.
Being sceptical is about accumulating points of verification. Imagine 'true' and 'false' as opposite ends of the same scale. Info that verifies an idea moves it toward the truth. Info that conflicts with an idea moves it toward false. Info from two eyes is better than info from one eye.
The fact that you successfully employ scepticism in most other areas of your life is the best evidence that being sceptical is the right way to approach the world.