[AChimp]

I think that you're forgetting the fact that there's a good chance that time didn't operate the way we think it does prior to the Big Bang. I believe the current theories suppose that gravity didn't exist prior to the Big Bang, along with several other key components of the Universe, such as the strong nuclear force. Without gravity (which we already KNOW affects time) and these other things, all our current laws of physics are basically tossed out the window.

I think that it's a little cheap to automatically assume that just because we can't explain it at the moment with our current knowledge, that it should automatically be attributed to an "outside force/push."

It's the equivalent of cavemen attributing rainbows to the Sun God because they didn't understand how light refracts.