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I don't think that's actually how the scientific community as a whole evaluates theories.

I'm not talking about the scientific community. I'm talking about people in the world. Christianity for example has accepted the Big Bang Theory as plausible and has not accepted others. This fact alone will help 70% of the world make a theory more prevalent.

Before the Big Bang theory, most Christian thinkers accepted the universe as eternal.

Citation, please. (Contra: Genesis 1:1.)

This is an anecdotal reposnse mostly based on having grown up in a strongly charismatic Christian background, but the folks I knew probably would have said that god existed forever and the universe started when he made it.

Obviously that's going to depend on who you ask in the denomination and what denomination you ask. My experience is that you're not generally going to get a very nuanced view of space and time but occasionally you'll be a little surprised.

Again. Anecdotal. Ymmv

Genesis 1:1 does not reflect the thought of any Christian thinkers.

Christianity is a rather broad grouping that encompasses a hundred churches with different beliefs. I don't think you can make meaningful statements about what Christians believe, except that they believe in Christ (hence the name). There's no central planning committee that decides what to believe.

For practical purposes, you may as well just use the word religion, as in "Religion for example has accepted the Big Bang Theory", which is more obviously too general.

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