Demystifying the Mysteries of Life: The Origin of the Cosmos

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Skeptic NY 12 years ago

Creationism IS NOT science and shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breathe as The Big Bang in the same way as the Stork Theory of child birth shouldn't be considered in the Labor & Delivery department of a hospital.

Creationism IS NOT science and shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breathe as The Big Bang in the same way as the Stork Theory of child birth shouldn't be considered in the Labor & Delivery department of a hospital.
SARK 12 years ago

Mr Emmanuel Sar[pong Owusu-Ansah please wait. I will reply to this when I go home for right now Iam @ woprk.OK?
This universe was not created.Secondly in which city do you live?

Mr Emmanuel Sar[pong Owusu-Ansah please wait. I will reply to this when I go home for right now Iam @ woprk.OK?
This universe was not created.Secondly in which city do you live?
yao 12 years ago

a good piece and educative

a good piece and educative
Kwesi Sakyi 12 years ago

Great article!

Great article!
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

In the beginning, there was no beginning and in the end there will be no end. We think of beginning and end in human concepts but the Divine Tetragrammaton has no beginning or end because He is timeless, non spatial, eternal ...
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In the beginning, there was no beginning and in the end there will be no end. We think of beginning and end in human concepts but the Divine Tetragrammaton has no beginning or end because He is timeless, non spatial, eternal and all-knowing. He cannot be symbolised by human expressions of words or symbols. He is, was and will be forever and ever.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

In the beginning, there was no beginning and in the end there will be no end. We think of beginning and end in human concepts but the Divine Tetragrammaton has no beginning or end because He is timeless, non spatial, eternal ...
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In the beginning, there was no beginning and in the end there will be no end. We think of beginning and end in human concepts but the Divine Tetragrammaton has no beginning or end because He is timeless, non spatial, eternal and all-knowing. He cannot be symbolised by human expressions of words or symbols. He is, was and will be forever and ever.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

In the beginning, there was no beginning and in the end there will be no end. We think of beginning and end in human concepts but the Divine Tetragrammaton has no beginning or end because He is timeless, non spatial, eternal ...
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In the beginning, there was no beginning and in the end there will be no end. We think of beginning and end in human concepts but the Divine Tetragrammaton has no beginning or end because He is timeless, non spatial, eternal and all-knowing. He cannot be symbolised by human expressions of words or symbols. He is, was and will be forever and ever.
bob green 12 years ago

Download and read "The Origin of the Universe - Case Closed". You may find it very interesting like I did.

Download and read "The Origin of the Universe - Case Closed". You may find it very interesting like I did.
Yaw Amofa 12 years ago

A lot of people like you have tried to rationalise big bang and other huhudious theories, but the question still remains that where did the first atom come from?

A lot of people like you have tried to rationalise big bang and other huhudious theories, but the question still remains that where did the first atom come from?
Agyengo 12 years ago

Yaw Amofa, you have asked interesting and intriguing question about where did the first atom come from? The truth about the beginning of God can only be understood through the Holy Ghost. God is a title as most of people did ...
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Yaw Amofa, you have asked interesting and intriguing question about where did the first atom come from? The truth about the beginning of God can only be understood through the Holy Ghost. God is a title as most of people did not known. Let's read the book of Genesis 1:1-2...it teaches about the beginning of heaven and Earth. Let me educate some of you here, the word "creation", means create from something. You cannot create something from nothing but creation is simply means creating something from something that has existed before. Indeed, matter was not created neither cannot be destroyed. Matter that scientist might called it as Big Bang is really true! God organized this materials or elements and formed the the galaxies and give orders, rules and laws pertaining to planets upon which it has placed in its respective galaxies. God is the great creator however, he created all things from matter or "big bang". We shouldn't confuse ourselves about God. Gods are many... Jesus Christ is a God, Jehovah in the old Testament, God that everyone called him even muslim known him as Allah known is our heavenly Father, the great Elohim the father of Jesus Christ in mortality. If our spiritual eyes and minds are open then we might understand the eternal truth about the beginning of Gods... but as we are mortal therefore are minds are limited to the things of the eternal truths but the Holy Ghost has the power open your understand since he is God because He knows all things from the beginning of life. As Christ promised that the Father will send the Holy Ghost and He shall teach you all things whatsoever the Father will command him. For now, it is yet reveal unto man how the Gods started in the beginning. Beginning in the sense that they started the first creation of the first heaven or galaxies. That is where the life began.

Agyengo 12 years ago

Again if you really understand how human beings are formed, then you will understand the nature of God. God said in the book of Genesis 1-26. i am just paraphrasing it, God said " let us make man in our own image and after ou ...
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Again if you really understand how human beings are formed, then you will understand the nature of God. God said in the book of Genesis 1-26. i am just paraphrasing it, God said " let us make man in our own image and after our likeness. Please, reread this passage again and ponder or reason with this statement then you might understand the kind of Being God is.If man was created from matter which is true...then God said let us make man in our own image and after our likeness. Please reason with this statement then you will know the kind of Being God is. As most people have believed that God is spirit i dispute and refute this heresy doctrine..but God has tabernacle of matter as we are...however, he is immortal being with perfect knowledge and power and lives in the eternal glory. Moreover, if you understand the mission of Christ then you will know the kind of being God is. Let me read from the Book of John in the new Testament. In the book of John 14:7-10, Christ said "if you had known me, you should have known my father also. And Philip asked followed up question he said " show us the Father or in otherwise God ". and Christ said,"have i been so long time with you, and yet you has thou not known me, Philip! he that has seen me have seen the Father or God, etc. Christ came and showed the kind of life God is but people or pastors have make us to believed that God is like giant, or invisible being, but he is not but he is glorified and perfect in all things and if we will obey the laws which He sent his beloved Son to instruct us then will seen him like a man having body of flesh and bones as tangible as a man. Christ is not different from his father they have the same character, attributes and human formed. They can eat, drink and live the kind of life as man but it shall be perfect in all sphere. Christ came and proved how God is. But devil and false prophets as disguised God as if he is totally different from Christ.
somebody 12 years ago

Agyengo, it is interesting reading your comments but I wish I understood your perception of God's person. the word 'image' in the creation story mean attributes or attitude rather than a human-like figure. I believe God is a ...
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Agyengo, it is interesting reading your comments but I wish I understood your perception of God's person. the word 'image' in the creation story mean attributes or attitude rather than a human-like figure. I believe God is a Spirit who is not bound by any limitations, i.e. he can assume any form or shape in order to accomplish his purpose, thus he assumed the human form in the person of Jesus to bring us the message and atonement on salvation. Jesus is God incarnate.
Vuvuzela 12 years ago

YOURS: “I will endeavour, in my next two articles, to reconcile the Big Bang theory and Creationism, and to highlight the arguments posited by creationists to prove the existence of God.”

R: Are you kidding me? You can ...
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YOURS: “I will endeavour, in my next two articles, to reconcile the Big Bang theory and Creationism, and to highlight the arguments posited by creationists to prove the existence of God.”

R: Are you kidding me? You can NEVER reconcile the Big Band Theory and Creationism. They are “light years” apart. Scientists try and are still trying to take the concept of a “Supreme Deity” out of the equation, and I can tell you it does make sense from their narrow perspective.
But there’s a contradiction as far as science is concerned: the overwhelming biological and medical syntheses make it obvious to the mind that life is too complex to have just evolved out of nothing like scientist seemed inclined to make us all swallow.
One NASA astronaut once said the presence of God is indeed so manifest and convincing to perception as you go the up in space and another, who believes in Creationism is being looked upon by colleagues as “crazy” because he thought the complexities in life are too overwhelming to have been accidental as supported by the Big Bang Theory.

YOURS: “One other big question is: did humankind and animals with a body so fragile also emerge from that massively hot and dense entity that the Big Bang theorists propose? It is extremely difficult to comprehend how living beings could have emerged or attained their origin from an entity with a temperature estimated to be approximately 1000 trillion degrees Celsius at just a tiny fraction of a second after the supposed explosion?”

R: The proponents of the Big Bang Theory NEVER said humankind and animals, and plants, besides (all carbon-based lifeforms) emerged from the hot plasma that they implied became “heavenly” bodies after the explosion. In fact, the hot matter cooled during millions of years as it swirled around to form planets and gasses and it later took other millions of years for atoms to develop and bacteria formed. Carbon-based lifeforms developed later.
On the other hand, common sense would make everyone who cares to contemplate life in living things infer that even for billions of years, very basic organisms like bacteria and others can never evolve into complex lifeforms of animals and plants.

YOURS: ”CREATIONISM or THE CREATIONISTS THEORY maintains that the universe is the handiwork or creation of a supernatural being. It explains that the universe is intelligently designed and created for a purpose by a Supreme Being of supreme mind. Creationism does not only attempt a justification of the existence of such a being but argues that it has no beginning and no end – it exists of itself/herself/himself; it is timeless.”

R: Up to now, looking at the universe, the circumstances and events, it is still the only possible explanation that gives credibility to the purpose of this universe and why we should be created at all. Because, of the face of it, no other explanation makes sense as to why we are here without asking for it and where we go from here; why certain things remain hidden and out of bounds to even the highest IQs on earth, why we can’t overcome certain natural hurdles etc. The ONLY solace therefore, is to think of a Supreme Deity who ONLY knows and have reasons to why there should be a mysterious universe and everything it harbors, why we humans should be here, and where our spirits go hereafter.

YOURS: “Despite its marked limitations, Creationism, in my personal opinion, is much more convincing than the Big Bang proposition, as the former explains the First Cause and existence in a more logical and coordinated way (as we shall see in my subsequent articles) than the latter. In other words, Creationism is more consistent with the harmonious and purposeful nature of the cosmos than Big Bang which creates the image of a doomed universe; a universe with chaotic beginning and no purpose.”

R: Like me, you have been raised in a culture where God reigns supreme so it is understandable you should believe in Creationism. I also think the same, and I also believe it is purposeful to believe we have been created for so many reasons.

You have to understand why the proponents of the Theory of Big Bang will not agree with you. What they fail to prove is “where from the first atom?” instead of nothing from the beginning.
You have undoubtedly heard of the subatomic (God) particle famously being touted in the scientific world. It is as it is, like nothing – subatomic, but having mass – enough to give rise to atomic particles that develop into creating the big bang resulting into the complex world we live in, yet the elusive God particle has not made the thunderous acclaim in the scientific world like they would have wanted. While they (scientists) are still battling their sides to create this God particle from huge machines they forget we’re talking about a universe developing out of nothing!
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

I was given the impression I'd be reading something enlightening under this subject only to be faced with another foray into fatuous religious crap! The 2nd promised part is obviously going to be worse!

Creationism which, ...
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I was given the impression I'd be reading something enlightening under this subject only to be faced with another foray into fatuous religious crap! The 2nd promised part is obviously going to be worse!

Creationism which, btw, was started by bored and retiring NASA scientists of NAZI German origins as a pastime and to worm themselves into the hearts of conservative Americans, taking advantage of the known loopholes in scientific knowledge by the late 1950s, is anything but scientific! Presenting the Big Bang theory in the manner the writer did is simply devious and intended to discredit the idea of a natural explanation for the origin of the universe, just as the man who first used the phrase intended it to be! "Big Bang" phrase was used to challenge that scientific theory but has rather gathered coinage as the description of the main scientific claim as to the the origin of the universe.

At least, no scientist claims they know, unlike the Creationists, about how the first atom came about. But they have theories about that, the main one being the Higgs boson or "God Particle," which the huge underground lab in Switzerland is trying to recreate. You can read all about that on the web, btw.

Science, within 300 years, has explained by far much, much better the natural phenomena around us than all religions have done for the last 5000 years! It is just persistent superstition and ignorance by the mass of humanity that is still keeping alive religions today. And Africans being at the top of humanity in being ignorant and superstitious, naturally are the biggest believers in all kinds of religious crap! Their cosmogony, even if they hold a PhD., remains at the Weberian primitive, substantive level of their illiterate grandparents and parents. Of course, most black Africans are first generation literate in their families. As for me, I've given up hope on such people holding sway today. Perhaps, with 3rd or 4th generation literacy in most African families, things will begin to change, provided there is a concerted exposure to rational education and Thought at an early age. That's why some of us who hold the scientific view must come out to support the young rationalist society in Ghana in various ways to spread the spirit of the Enlightenment to Ghana too. We cannot afford to remain in the Medieval Age, as the case is presently, with charlatans like TB Joshua hold sway over even our late President and the current one organising pilgrimages for pastors! Bah!

Andy-K
Vuvuzela 12 years ago

Andy, Creationism WASN'T started by Nasa Scientists of German extraction. It originates in the Bible - Old Testament, precisely in the first chapter of Genesis. People just support it, depending on their views, which also dep ...
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Andy, Creationism WASN'T started by Nasa Scientists of German extraction. It originates in the Bible - Old Testament, precisely in the first chapter of Genesis. People just support it, depending on their views, which also depends on other beliefs etc. sourcing from life. The idea of Creationism is therefore old.

I hope you understand why no one can take away people's beliefs. There are a lot number of extremely good scientist who still believe in God and creation. It doesn't make them bad scientists at all. If you put a debate in the media about the Theory of the Big Bang and Creationism, I can tell you there will be a cleavage in opinion and scientists will not win. The margin will not dictate the truth because these two propositions can't really be verified from empirical viewpoints. What is insipid in such debates is that they turn to be futile, subjective and nonconstructive because everyone will stay his arguments.

Hope you're fine. It's been a while you visited Ghanaweb or made a contribution. Your wife's delivered to a baby boy, lol?
C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

First, I'd visit Ghanaweb almost every day but I don't often contribute. The Brotherhood of Nitwits that dominate here drown any sensible comments anyway, so why comment?

Now, "creationism" is a word coin for so-called "sc ...
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First, I'd visit Ghanaweb almost every day but I don't often contribute. The Brotherhood of Nitwits that dominate here drown any sensible comments anyway, so why comment?

Now, "creationism" is a word coin for so-called "scientific" attempts to prove that a god created the universe. It originated as I said. You can google for that yourself and read all about it. It is vastly difference in its explanation to the biblical account of the creation. Of course, proper scientists had thoroughly exposed creationist claims as fraudulent. And are always ready to punch holes in a any new claims.

BTW, science is a methodology, not physics, biology and chemistry, as some people think. Those subjects simply use the scientific methodology for their proofs. So being a biologists, physicist, or chemist doesn't make you an expert on the Bible and its claims of a creation of the universe by a god.

Andy-K
Mr. QUESTIONS 12 years ago

The Creationists position collapsed
completely with the advent of Corpenicus and Gallilleo.

They claim "God" was infallible and may still be, in their opinion. In terms of the Catholic church, "God's" representative on ...
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The Creationists position collapsed
completely with the advent of Corpenicus and Gallilleo.

They claim "God" was infallible and may still be, in their opinion. In terms of the Catholic church, "God's" representative on earth, the Pope, is also infallible.

The teaching of the Christian Community (from "God") was that the EARTH was the center of the universe. People who brought up contrary views were punished hard for BLASPHEMY, INCLUDING GALLILLEO.

Now we know that that Christian FACT, was totally wrong. After all, "God" is fallible, the Pope is fallible, and Jesus Christ was a real human being born and bred like any of us walking on the surface of the earth.

THE EARTH, AFTER ALL IS NOT FLAT !!!
Jason 12 years ago

Away with the BIG BANG THEORY.How did human beings and all other creatures emerge from the BIG BANG explosion?

Away with the BIG BANG THEORY.How did human beings and all other creatures emerge from the BIG BANG explosion?
atheist 12 years ago

Religion is man-made. In terms of discovering the origin of the universe, just because scientists don't YET know the origins does not necessarily mean that some god did it. 200 years ago people believe that disease was ca ...
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Religion is man-made. In terms of discovering the origin of the universe, just because scientists don't YET know the origins does not necessarily mean that some god did it. 200 years ago people believe that disease was caused by spirits. Research has revealed the true cause of disease. One day scientists will explain the origins of the universe.

However, all religions are just the creation of MEN.
APO 12 years ago

Scientifically speaking, there is an infinite number of universes! So which universe are you writing about? The Milky Way (our galaxy) is an infinitessimal speck of dust in the cosmos.

Science does not prove the non-exist ...
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Scientifically speaking, there is an infinite number of universes! So which universe are you writing about? The Milky Way (our galaxy) is an infinitessimal speck of dust in the cosmos.

Science does not prove the non-existence of God but rather explains what we can understand by scientific principles - at our human level - what our world is and how it came into being. Knowledge is augmenting, evolving and clearly infinite too! We keep discovering new stuff all the time - beyond Egypt, beyond Newton, beyond Einstein...beyond the "God particle" (the Higgs Boson)...

There is no use for "Creationism" for science ultimately proves the existence of God: the entity we don't understand - the source of everything. We can scientifically understand that the Creator gave free will to his creation - to be in infinitely different ways and forms and to evolve, for the emergence of higher beings, for these beings to discover and understand (at their human level).

There is no use speculating about creation and not accepting the Creator. It is hopeless. All faiths agree on this. Humans should simply accept as in the first principle of Judaism by Maimonedes:
"I believe with perfect faith that God, blessed be his Holy Name, is the Creator and source of all creation."

Christianity points out that "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

Islam points out that humans are inferior beings before God and thus incapable of understanding the Divine no matter what.

The Sikh bible points out that no matter how devout one is, no matter what a pious life we lead, the nature of God will never be revealed.

Maimonedes pinches it all together in comprehensible terms with these selections of his 13 principles of Judaism:

2. I believe with perfect faith that God is One. There is no unity that is in any way like God. God alone is our God. God was, God is, and God will be.

3. I believe with perfect faith that God does not have a body. Physical concepts do not apply to God. There is nothing whatsoever that resembles God at all.

4. I believe with perfect faith that God is first and last.

Science and philosophy both agree that the Cosmos has no beginning and no end! The acceptance of the Creator is the beginning of WISDOM!

Agyengo 12 years ago

Somebody and Apo...you guys have given some significant clues about God.I have learned some truth from your script. However i still stand on my belief and faith that God has tabernacle of matter as he has ordained all creatu ...
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Somebody and Apo...you guys have given some significant clues about God.I have learned some truth from your script. However i still stand on my belief and faith that God has tabernacle of matter as he has ordained all creatures to have. In the eons of eternity...the great God whom we worship and reverent as our Father in Heaven went through the order of perfection and attain to that height of glory as supreme being as His Son did in his mortal ministry. Our minds might not get the full picture and understanding of these mysteries but it was the process of life itself that He observed all truths and knowing all things. And he has the power to redeem every creature as He sees it fit. Therefore we are the offspring of God...i always become sad when they are still consider God as one... and still consider God the Father who came as Christ. They are separate distinct beings. Read, the mother of all scriptures which give life to human soul which is John 3 : 16, it reads "for God so love the world that He gave his only Begotten Son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. What is difficult to except plain truth. God sent his only begotten son who is Jesus Christ. I don't want to go into details about Christ, but for the sake of many of you, i will do it. Don't confuse yourself the word "God". It is title given unto the supreme being. Notwithstanding, Christ is God himself, let me take you to Isaiah 9:6-7 it reads; "for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace... i found it difficult to explain the simplicity of God the father and his son...i repeat they are one God in purpose, mission but they are separate beings, Christ be God the son, and God we will normally called as God the Father. If you did not get this fundamental of all truths right, all things become volatile in the mindset. Let us ask ourselves this question in the book of John 1 :1-3 it reads;"in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God and... Let me ask my fellow audience in this social forum, who was the "word"?, and who was with the word in the beginning? Please let us reason with the truth, as Christ said, the truth shall set us free, we should not preconceived that knowing about God is a sin or will distract our attention but in my cardinal opinion is the weapon of the devil. God is a title and Christ attained it in the eons of eternity as His Father did. And we are the course of the same journal as Christ said in the book of Matthew 5:48; it reads "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your father which is in heaven is perfect. Let me leave this wise saying, and i want you to reason again, "if caterpillar will one day become butterfly then what will be destiny of children of God?
Agyengo 12 years ago

If you will understand the reason why Christ died and resurrected? Then you will understand the kind of life God was and He is enjoying in eternities! Life is a journey, man was spirit with God in the beginning, but his joy w ...
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If you will understand the reason why Christ died and resurrected? Then you will understand the kind of life God was and He is enjoying in eternities! Life is a journey, man was spirit with God in the beginning, but his joy was not full he need to passed through the order of perfection by coming to mortal life, tested, die, and resurrected and raised from corruptible to
incorruptible, or in other words, from mortality to immortality that was the Mission of Christ. As Christ and God are immortal Beings.
Concerned citizen 12 years ago

The writer must understand that Science has no bone to pick with religion.Science is about the study of nature-what is the world made of? And science is always self correcting. Please add this to your thinking before you come ...
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The writer must understand that Science has no bone to pick with religion.Science is about the study of nature-what is the world made of? And science is always self correcting. Please add this to your thinking before you come up with your next piece. Thanks.
somebody 12 years ago

God is the TRUTH, science is just trying to establish that. I believe science would one day come to establish this fact.

God is the TRUTH, science is just trying to establish that. I believe science would one day come to establish this fact.
Mr. QUESTIONS 12 years ago

If you do not know who you are, why
then do you go about talking about
a phantom God you have never met ?

Drunkards talk about illusions .... and illusions are not reality !!!

If you do not know who you are, why
then do you go about talking about
a phantom God you have never met ?

Drunkards talk about illusions .... and illusions are not reality !!!
Emmanuel Sarpong Owusu-Ansah 12 years ago

I am writing to express my heartfelt thanks to you all for sharing your interesting opinions on the subject discussed in the article. For the first time, I have read every single comment posted on my article, and I must say t ...
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I am writing to express my heartfelt thanks to you all for sharing your interesting opinions on the subject discussed in the article. For the first time, I have read every single comment posted on my article, and I must say that they are all very impressive. I will be reading all comments passed on articles published on the subject being discussed – The Mysteries of Life.

I would use this occasion to correct a point made by Vuvuzela who has made a very insightful and thought provoking comment; I enjoyed reading his/her comment just as I did with all other comments.

When I mention that one would find it difficult to comprehend how humankind and animals, entities so fragile, could have attained their origin from an entity so hot, I am not suggesting that living beings emerged directly from the hot entity that exploded/expanded. Of course we understand that it cooled down/off probably billions of years after the explosion before forming living entities. Remember, a considerable amount of time and researching goes into almost all my articles, so I couldn’t have missed that piece of information. The imagery I am trying to portray in that paragraph is that something so violent, dangerous, deadly and clearly purposeless could not possibly be the source of humankind whose nature is almost the opposite of the so-called hot and dense ball.

Once again thanks to everyone for your comments.

More interesting, exciting and unbiased articles are yet to come, so keep reading. I have chosen either Sundays or Mondays for the publication of articles on the subject under discussion. However, I might have articles on other issues published intermittently.
PSD 12 years ago

When God from the unmanifested state shows in the manifested state,the manifestation is like the tiniest dot, point or atom. When this dot, point, atom projects itself from one point to the other, we get the starting, beginni ...
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When God from the unmanifested state shows in the manifested state,the manifestation is like the tiniest dot, point or atom. When this dot, point, atom projects itself from one point to the other, we get the starting, beginning point, atom. The starting point then stretches and creates the intervening space and the end point when it stops at a point. We have our first dimension in the manifested state. LENGTH. etc.. Geometry is also a good and apt tool for describing the manifested state and the devine.

We jump from 1 to 3 if the line has a starting point and a finished point without regards to the number 2. We then have 1 in 3 and 3 in 1 manifested. TRINITY

God was, is and will forever be, period. It can only take God to understand God. Humble yourselves and awaken the God in you for your own benefits instead of trying to weigh God on a scale. God the Omnipotent, Omniscent and the Omnipresent is beyond human comprehension. He is awesom, let all beings bow to HIM.
Mr. QUESTIONS 12 years ago

Sarpong, this is a good article.
The only draw back I see is this :

This article talks about the macrocosm. How about the microcosm ?
Please recall the clarion call of Socrates : "Man, know thyself".

If man does not ...
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Sarpong, this is a good article.
The only draw back I see is this :

This article talks about the macrocosm. How about the microcosm ?
Please recall the clarion call of Socrates : "Man, know thyself".

If man does not know who he/she is, how could this individual understand the expansive universe.

In determining the area under a curve,
like Y=(X)**2 ( Y= X-squared),

Calculus starts by determining the area of small rectangles under the curve; and then sums up these small areas to come up with the final answer.

Man should approach this question from a similar angle.
EXISTENTIALIST 12 years ago

THE ARTICLE GIVES THE IMPRESSION THAT THERE IS A CONFLIICT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION, WHEN IT COMES TO THE BIG BANG THEORY. BUT THIS IS NOT SO. THE FATHER OF THE BIG BANG THEORY, GEORGES LEMAITRE WAS A CATHOLIC PRIEST FROM ...
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THE ARTICLE GIVES THE IMPRESSION THAT THERE IS A CONFLIICT BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION, WHEN IT COMES TO THE BIG BANG THEORY. BUT THIS IS NOT SO. THE FATHER OF THE BIG BANG THEORY, GEORGES LEMAITRE WAS A CATHOLIC PRIEST FROM BELGIUM. HE STUDIED BOTH SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY. LEMAITRE'S RELIGIOUS INTERESTS REMAINED AS IMPORTANT TO HIM AS SCIENCE THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE, AND HE SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE POPE'S PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES FROM 1960 UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1966. HE DISCOVERED AND CONVINCED THE MAJORITY OF ASTRONOMERS THAT THE UNIVERSE WAS INDEED EXPANDING. HE EXPLORED THE LOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE AND BOLDLY PROPOSED THAT IT MUST HAVE ORIGINATED AT A FINITE POINT IN TIME. LEMAITRE ARGUED THAT THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE WAS INITIALLY A SINGLE PARTICLE - THE "PRIMEVAL ATOM" AS HE CALLED IT - WHICH DISINTEGRATED IN AN EXPLOSION, GIVING RISE TO SPACE AND TIME AND THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE THAT CONTINUES TO THIS DAY. THIS IDEA MARKED THE BIRTH OF WHAT WE NOW KNOW AS BIG BANG COSMOLOGY. LEMAITRE TRIED TO UNDERSTAND WHY THE UNIVERSE WAS EXPANDING. HE ALREADY BELIEVED THAT GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE AND THAT GOD WAS GUIDING THE UNIVERSE. WE ALL ACCEPT THAT GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE, BUT HOW DID GOD CREATE THE UNIVERSE?
Kwame Appeatu 12 years ago

You wrote: The imagery I am trying to portray in that paragraph is that something so violent, dangerous, deadly and clearly purposeless could not possibly be the source of humankind whose nature is almost the opposite of the ...
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You wrote: The imagery I am trying to portray in that paragraph is that something so violent, dangerous, deadly and clearly purposeless could not possibly be the source of humankind whose nature is almost the opposite of the so-called hot and dense ball.

Could not possibly? Do we have a choice where we could come from? So you infer that it would have been ok for humankind to have emerged from a more gentler Big Bang rather than a violent one! You have no say in this matter. Science isn't about your emotions or beliefs, it is as it is.

cjb 12 years ago

you have to do your homework well

you have to do your homework well

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Demystifying the Mysteries of Life: The Origin of the Cosmos

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