Ok. Most of the time I at least consider the arguments proposed by science about creation, etc. I’m a literal Creation story guy, but I allow that some sort of natural selection could’ve been built into the system. Whatever. Not a big deal. But when an article comes out about what happened “Before the Big Bang”, I’m even more intrigued. But then, it says this:
Cosmologists Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok have a radical idea that could wipe away these mysteries. They theorize that the cosmos was never compacted into a single point and did not spring forth in a violent instant. Instead, the universe as we know it is a small cross section of a much grander universe whose true magnitude is hidden in dimensions we cannot perceive. What we think of as the Big Bang, they contend, was the result of a collision between our three-dimensional world and another three-dimensional world less than the width of a proton away from ours—right next to us, and yet displaced in a way that renders it invisible. Moreover, they say the Big Bang is just the latest in a cycle of cosmic collisions stretching infinitely into the past and into the future. Each collision creates the universe anew. The 13.7-billion-year history of our cosmos is just a moment in this endless expanse of time.
Did anyone catch that? They say that the Big Bang was caused by our universe running into another, like some sort of cosmic traffic jam. But wait, there’s more! Maybe I just misunderstood the whole thing, but didn’t the Big Bang cause our universe? So how did it run into another…before the big…argh. Whatever. It sounds just like a Christian “proving God” in a philosophical conversation by saying that the Bible says so.
Science has a long way to go. At least we have faith. String theory is interesting though….if interested, read The Science of God. Great book on physics and God.