Aarg; I can't quite figure out how to do this; I apologize if I have done violence to the normal way of quoting somone:
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Originally Posted by RickyMaveety Begin Ricky post------------------
Now, if the Bible had begun with general physics and worked its way into string theory and parallel universes, instead of gardens and begats, well, then I might have not tossed it out as interesting fiction.
But, alas ..... it was not to be.
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I doubt that would have gone over with the general population at the time of the writings........  |
I respectfully disagree. I'm not sure how much could be done with string theory, because I don't in the least understand it, but the beginning of the cosmos / origin of earth could have been done pretty well, I think. It might have started something like:
In the beginning everything was pressed together in one spot, and it was smaller and heavier and hotter than anything the human mind can imagine. It was so hot that in the next instant it sprang outward, into clouds of dust and wind, hanging in the empty night. The clouds were so vast that they were heavy, and over uncountable eons they drew together in clumps, like curds forming in milk, but made of dust and wind falling inward under its own weight. The clumps grew hotter and hotter until they began to burn with a fire that is not like earthly fire but is far hotter and more powerful. They became suns. Their sun fire changed the nature of the their own sun stuff, to make new materials that would be able to combine to form air and rock, iron and ash, water and copper and bronze, all the things of the world. These suns lived a long, long time, and some of them sprang apart when they died, strewing their changed sunstuff in new clouds...
And so on. I don't think it would have been that hard.