The interesting thing about sight, is that it is limited by understanding. If the senses are strictly directed outward based on what you can see, what becomes possible is going to be restrained by the limits of sight and the imagination that is attached to conjecture formed around the outward oriented senses.
The human eye can't see infrared nor light waves beyond certain levels of frequency. One would have to first imagine beyond what the eye can see and begin to explore the way to experience what the eye is limited by in its construction or its focus based on its training to focus within limits.
Time is a funny thing, and the outward going senses can only follow a sequence fitting within the idea of past present and future. Physics is beginning to see time as something that is not so rigid. Science imagines time travel and the possibility of even changing time by interjecting certain changes which would have an effect on futures where anomalies occur within the fabric of possible pasts. Some theorize time as something like a film strip where one could travel in either direction and experience any event without being limited by the past present future lane of one direction only travel that the mind perceives. Add the possibility of multiple universes where similar realities exist but with different outcomes and experiences, and Time becomes something other than linear progression.
If such a multiverse exists where time is ultimately flexible then whatever governs it would also be infinitely flexible. The Bang as you describe it as both "with" and "without" purpose, would exist in the infinite now, constantly being recreated and redefined by someone or something thru the activity of interaction. Anything with the ability to have any force or intelligence that has manifest itself within the universe might also have its counterpart within the unmanifest, but it would be less defined by its manifest appearances. The limits of science and religion simply focus their lines of sight within boundaries of belief and understanding. What it, (the believer) seems to see and understand, the universe supports and allows, until something other is conjured within the intellect and its attachments to the reality as it is experienced (this is the natural law of evolution in belief and sensory attachment).
For example the world was once believed to be Flat. Man allowed their beliefs and emotions to drive them towards acceptance of this fact, yet the Universe was much bigger than mans belief and the Earth remained as it does now, a sphere.
The Universe is possibly both caring enough to allow what man applies to it as purpose and principle and yet big enough to change with mans ideas. Yet it is also something other in which the senses of all sentient and insentient beings, beyond the realms of human belief interact and experience themselves in the same way humans do while imposing themselves upon the universe to define it within their limits of belief and understanding.
