Re: Big Bang: How widely accepted?

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(Steve Sohn) writes:

>Has anyone else noticed the tantalizing parallel of this Big Bang and
general
>advanced theorizing to a more medieval priesthood that pretended to
understand
>the secrets of its own day; like, the Trinity, or how many angels
could dance on
>the head of a pin.

Yeah, pretty much the same, except the priesthood looked for all the
answers in a book that somebody else wrote, and the astronomers look
through a tube at the universe that something else created.

>One gets the idea that in the future all this cosmological bruhaha
will be the
>same.

It's just a matter of scale, ain't it?

Wayne Johnson
ciacon@ix.netcom.com

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