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Plausible theories are usually based on previous similar cases or on analogies that bear illuminating resemblance to the new postulate. But Lemaitre couldn’t possibly have resorted to any such previous experiences or similarities because there is absolutely nothing in recorded history that may even remotely resemble the beginning of the Universe. Nobody knows how that allegedly happened. So there is no way Lemaitre could have relied on anything but sheer imagination when conceiving his story.
And if to this we add the fact that Lemaitre was a Catholic priest, we have a pronounced possibility that he was highly influenced by the bible when he got the “inspiration” for his pseudo-scientific postulate. From this perspective, 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.
Nobody in this world has any first-hand experience of any Genesis-like event and nobody in this world has any first-hand experience of any Apocalypse-like event either. But, if this is so, where is it that all those pseudo-scientific, mythological and religious versions of the Genypse come from? If the Big-Bangeddon is just a worldwide collective subconscious memory and if there is no way for any of us to have witnessed any such event because none of us could have ever been there in the first place, what is it that we are recalling when we come up with any Genypse-like or Big-Bangeddon-like stories and theories?
There’s no denying that Genypse tales have been told across the world since times immemorial. If Genypse stories were found exclusively in the bible it would be rather easy to discard them as just one element of a specific set of religious beliefs, but that is not the case. Genypse theories are found in the mythological tales of peoples and tribes disseminated across the entire world and across the long span of human history. This fact makes such theories and stories a bit difficult to disregard as random localisms.
There is definitely something universal in those theories and tales, some sort of primary, archetypal, recurrent pattern that pertains to the whole human race. This is a reason why some people may try to explain the universality of those stories using terms like “collective subconscious” or “collective memory,” meaning this is an issue that concerns all of us, not as individuals, but as a collective entity.
The “collective” aspect of this phenomenon seems to point to an encoded DNA-like source of inspiration that generates collective but subconscious archetypal intuitions that sometimes surface to the conscious of some people, regardless of their ethnicity or place of origin, prompting them to express very similar Genypse-like kinds of mythological tales and theories. This may well sound a bit far fetched to some, but I’m willing to bet that Joseph Campbell et al would consider it a rather plausible idea.
Still, even if the archetypal-intuition proposition made above were true, the questions would still remain: How could human beings have DNA-like Genesis codes encrypted in them if the human race didn’t exist yet when Creation allegedly took place? And how can any of us have any encoded intuitions about the Apocalypse if the Apocalypse has never happened before and it hasn’t happened yet?
To answer those questions I propose to first look into some basic arguments that serve as foundation to some of the most populous religious denominations of our time. So let me start by clarifying some fundamental concepts that most of us take for granted, but whose explication may throw some light upon the subject in question.
