Genesis-Like Myths Date from Prehistory – The Big Bang Myth Dates from 1927.
Nha Trang, Vietnam, December 29th, 2024.
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The Big Bang Theory has only been around for close to 100 years. It was the Belgian Astronomer Georges Lemaître, a Catholic priest who also had a PhD in Physics from MIT who, in 1927, as if in a moment of epiphany, as if in a flash of mystical revelation, with NO basis or support from any factual evidence, came up with the ultra-imaginative theory that the whole universe came out of a Cosmic mass of primal matter that one day, right out of the blue, exploded into pieces, thereby generating the asteroids, planets, moons, stars, and whatever other celestial bodies or entities that exist today (see here)
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Conceiving the Big Bang theory, therefore, seems to have been like a spark of fantasy, like a religious epiphany overtaking the imagination of a Catholic priest who was also a physicist, a “revelation” perhaps not as strong and hallucinatory as the one Moses is supposed to have had when he thought he saw a burning bush talking to him, but quite comparable to it.

Today, people who believe in both those tales and other equally-fantastic ones do so because they want to, as a sheer act of faith, NOT because there is any proof or evidence to corroborate them. The late-Carl Sagan, an American Astronomer of renown, once said that “faith is belief in the absence of evidence” (see here) which is an aphorism perfectly applicable to all religions in the world.

But Carl Sagan fervently believed, also with no factual evidence at all, that the Big Bang theory was true, thereby equating that theory with any other Genesis-like creationist mythology. In my view, the Big Bang theory is just a modern version of the same old mythological Genesis-like tales and beliefs, except that this time the tale is told in pseudo-scientific jargon.

There is NO proof whatsoever that corroborates without a doubt that the Big Bang theory is true. Everything about it is just sheer scientific speculation. Plausible speculation maybe, but sheer speculation nonetheless. Carl Sagan’s error, therefore, was to see in religion the fundamental faults that he, himself, was accountable for as an astronomer.

Believing in the Big Bang theory is as much an act of faith as believing in Moses' burning bush, as both fantastic, outlandish beliefs are held in the absence of any evidence whatsoever.

Back in August of 2009 I wrote an essay that elaborates on this subject. Most importantly, my writing gives an explanation as to why the Big Bang theory and other Genesis-like mythologies are so widely accepted around the world. To read it, please click here.

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