we’ll all be better off if the Great Satan isn’t the center of scientific progress.

No, I wouldn’t be better off living in a country where women are arrested and killed for appearing in public without a silly garment covering their head.

The Yahweh character in the OT is a science illiterate. He freaked out when the Babylonians build a 50 meter tall ziggarut and thought they could reach outer space (100,000 meters for sub-orbital).

If god depends on the help of little children he must not be very powerful.

[ the modern big-bang theory, which holds that the universe began in a cataclysmic explosion of a small, primeval “super-atom.” ]

It doesn’t say that at all. Current theory says there was definitely no singularity and the big bang was set up and preceded by an earlier phase known as “cosmic inflation”.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/07/27/there-was-no-big-bang-singularity/