"The scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation... His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."
~ Albert Einstein ~
The most popular theory of our universe's origin centers on a cosmic cataclysm unmatched in all of history - the big bang. This theory was born of the observation that other galaxies are moving away from our own at great speed, in all directions, as if they had all been propelled by an ancient explosive force.
Scientists believe that before the big bang, the entire vastness of the observable universe, including all of its matter and radiation, was compressed into a hot, dense mass just a few millimeters across. This nearly incomprehensible state is theorized to have existed for just a fraction of the first second of time, before providing the initial thrust to have set the universe into perpetual motion.
Big bang proponents suggest that some 10 billion to 20 billion years ago, a massive blast allowed all the universe's known matter and energy - even space and time themselves - to spring from some ancient and unknown type of energy. I find my hope restored in the honesty of mankind's quest for knowledge, in that science has come to a conclusion which allows us to embrace science and God in the same thought.
"Study to show thyself approved
A workman that needeth not be ashamed
rightly dividing the truth."
~ II Timothy 2:15 ~
Never Give Up the Search,
Pappy
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