gregory rush
Jul 10, 2017 · 2 min read

I still have a problem with the limited scope of the usual portrayals of the “Big Bang”, a some version of a cone-like visual. Still seems like it would have been more like witnessing a fireworks starburst, radiating out in every direction.

What is the problem people apparently have with portraying the event like this?

On another perspective, there has always been one easy point of common agreement between scientific theory and theological belief about the origin of “everything we know” here: Fact is, we have today immeasurable amounts of facts, data, and recorded observances, that have been assessed to our best abilities to support the most current…theories.

Very well documented, supported and peer-reviewed theories, but just best-expert guesses still; on which a multitude of other theories have been based. (Yes, the Earth is round, not flat, but…what shape is the universe?)

I only mean to point out that we still have not much tried to even postulate about an obvious pair of “idiot’s queries”: “What was happening before, the Big Bang? Why did the Big Bang Happen?”

So, this is why I demonstrate my rational patience when my more religious friends claim that though our scientists’ many questions about existence have not yet really been conclusively answered, their peers have always had a widely agreed-upon “answer” to at lest one of those two questions, proposed with an even stronger faith in it’s accuracy.

“The reason the Big Bang happened can be summed up in five simple words”;

“And Then There Was Light”.

(Don’t knock it too hard; it’s one more step than science is willing to take…)

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