>>>The BB theory seems to be a major component of the evolution theory.
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>>Absolutely not.
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>hummmm.... No Big Bang, No evolution.... so I thought....

Why did you think that?


>Where would the materials needed for life come from?

I dunno. Maybe it was God.

In what way does the lack of a clear answer to this question cast doubt on evolution?

For what its worth the Big Bang doesn't answer your question in any clear way either. It says all the matter was stuck together as some super time-less, space-less particle (Terry mentioned the "egg") and then it started to expand.

Here's a bit of irony for you. The big bang was the idea of a priest who wanted the origin of the Universe to be consistent with genesis:

http://spaceinfo.jaxa.jp/note/kagaku/e/kag111_remaitre_e.html

In light of this you would think that the stereotypical Christian point of view is that the Big Bang occured, and God showed up later once Earth was forged in the center of massive ovens (stars, all "materials needed for life" are the result of fusion in the center of stars; where the raw materials come from is of course the bigger question) to inhabit his Eden.