I already touched on the religion pages ago to help explain my views on reality, but I do believe that it is a combination.

Every scientist will now even state that there was a greater power behind the big bang, they are not all willing to call it god, but they all believe there is a higher power to create such energy. That is also what I believe, I do believe in the big bang (although not quite that version of it) and I believe there was a higher power behind it all.

Now if you go before the big bang, I do not think we are capable of existing in that reality, I think that is a reality above and beyond our own. One that we cannot even come close to contemplating.