By now, everyone has heard about the Hubble Space Telescope’s new measure of the age of the universe.
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The Hubble Space Telescope • STS-125/NASA
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On the first day, there was a big…
The universe began with the Big Sneeze. A creation myth from Egypt of the third millennium B.C. has God bring the world into being with a sneeze. It’s not a bad image for the Creation as currently described by astronomers.
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Seven laughs, one Big Bang
An ancient creation myth from the so-called “Eighth Hidden Book of Moses” has God bring all things into being with seven laughs.
Temperature fluctuations in the early universe • NASA / WMAP Science Team (Public Domain)
Bang, you’re not dead
One could say of the Big Bang what Mark Twain said of himself: Reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.
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Is it pointless to ask if the universe is pointless?
“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”
Artist's concept of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) • NASA (Public Domain)
Big boost for the Big Bang
The poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote, “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
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The new creationists
The C‑word is back. “Creation,” long taboo, tainted with the odor of mysticism, a pariah concept that dared not speak its name, is back in the vocabulary of science.
Woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (Public Domain)
God and the Big Bang
Next winter [1985] Halley’s Comet will make its long awaited dash around the sun. It will be the fourth appearance of the comet since Newton’s colleague Edmund Halley predicted its periodic return.
The Hubble Deep Field photograph • R. Williams (STScI), the Hubble Deep Field Team and NASA/ESA
Not with a bang but a laugh
A creation myth from the ancient Mediterranean has God bring all things into being with seven laughs. Here is how Charles Doria and Harris Lenowitz translate the first laugh: Light (Flash) / showed up / All splitter / born universe god / fire god. Those lines are two thousand years old, but they aptly describe the modern scientific view of Creation.