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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
RM, what I find interesting it that if you correct for multiple translations, and that the original source was written for a non-scientific (and barely literate) audience, what you end up with in the tale of the beginning in Genesis is the big bang theory. The amazing thing is that this myth beat out all the others over 5,000 years to match up with modern physics.....
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Yes, you can read it that way. It answers the question "
Why did the Big Bang occur?" God said "Let there be light."...
I also like a bit I heard of from Chinese mythology, where the creation myth began with "First there was nothing. Then there was something, and the something was Pan Ku"
The Hindi mythology has Mahasamatman, the dreamer, dreaming all the worlds, and that bit maps neatly the the concept that our universe is a bubble in a multi-dimensional hyper cosmos, where other bubbles also exist. A Hindu friend years back once told me that there were portions of the Hindu scriptures reserved for the advanced that talked about what happened when the dreamer woke up, but I never found out more about it.
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Dennis