inaccessibility and nothingness. It may be (here I defer to the authorities) that events prior to the Big Bang are scientifically inaccessible; perhaps presently inaccessible, perhaps always. But if they are this does not confer on the Big Bang the honour of being the act of creation. For the Big Bang was a process; a short, sharp process, but a process nonetheless. For in the Bang pre-existing stuff was involved, however currently inaccessible to scientific articulation that stuff is. The Big Bang