The Big Bang Theory was originally seen as supportive or quasi-supportive of religion by both religious factions and by skeptical scientists.
So we have Pope Pius embracing Big Bang Theory saying:
"it would seem that present-day science has succeeded in bearing witness to the august instant of the primordial Fiat Lux, when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation. What, then, is the importance of modern science in the argument for the existence of God based on change in the universe? With exact and detailed research into the large-scale and small-scale worlds it has considerably broadened and deepened the empirical foundation on which the argument rests. Thus, with that concreteness which is characteristic of physical proofs, it has confirmed the contingency of the universe and also the well-founded deduction as to the epoch when the world came forth from the hands of the Creator. Hence, creation took place. We say, therefore, there is a Creator. Therefore, God exists.”
And we have Fred Hoyle (leading astronomer) arguing for the competing Steady State Theory, writing
"for it is against the spirit of scientific inquiry to regard observable effects as arising from causes unknown to science, and this is in principle what creation-in-the-past implies."
Source: HarvardX: EMC2x The Einstein Revolution
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