“I think that if [the cyclic theory of cosmology] had been a suggested by a religion, if it had been religion that first maintained the notion that all the matter in the entire universe had once been contained in an area smaller than the point of a pin, scientists probably would have laughed at the idea.”
Marilyn vos Savant, reputed to have the highest IQ ever recorded.

What's even more amazing is that the Big Bang Creation Event is something that brought the entire universe into being – when the laws of physics had nothing material to act upon. A material event taking place without the laws of physics is a working definition of a miracle.