The timeless, spaceless, and immaterial force was/is GOD(YHVH).
The Big Bang is not "Evolutionist", as it proposes nothing to do with evolution. It is not atheist, as the notion comes from a Catholic Priest/Physicist/Astronomer, and is entirely compatible with belief in an almighty whatever if you so choose. The answer is that we don't really KNOW what caused the Big Bang, and we don't feel compelled to pretend we know; space just reveals that it most likely happened.
So, you are free to fill that blank with whatever wild stab in the dark that your imagination can conjure. I wouldn't count on that always being dark, though. Science has a pesky way of pushing that back, and it won't hold your particular fantasy sacred.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.