Obviously, but consider the end goal i mentioned, what should the end goal be? Is any religios belief detrimental to science?

I am an IT guy, and as stated before, I am mostly atheistic but also agnostic in some views.

The largest of my agnostic views has to do with the big bang.

I am no scientist, so I probably misunderstand it, but the way I have had it explained to me is something like this

First there was nothing, then the big bang happened.

And that is something I just can't wrap my head around, how can "nothing" explode?

This is a point where I can absolutely insert a deity, something omnipotent could absolutely cause the big bang.

If there is no such entity, then I tend to consider the thought that we might live in a simulation.

In either case I don't believe that we humans living on this random planet is important enough that the world was created specifically for us, I just consider the big bang as possibly involving an omnipotent entity, the rest can be explained by science.

But mostly I don't think about it at all.