I just can't imagine how any life would survive the big bang though.
Say what? Panspermia does not involve life predating the big bang, so it does not require that life survive the big bang.
If it ever did explain it then people would not be responsible for any action or thought they ever had, good or bad, because science did it.
The above is a strawman that you have put together and then dismissed. Scientific explanations of a phenomenon does not mean that the phenomenon is deterministic.
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