Big Bang?

[malignd at aol.com]

<<Ah yes, this is the crux of the issue, right here: human Science 
can't explain how the universe came to be any more than human Religion 
can explain how its various "Gods" came to be. The logic of both 
requires an enormous leap of faith on the part of the true believer>>

Science requires no leap of faith.  Go outside at night, look up, there 
it is.  We might not know exactly how it began, but pretty clearly it 
did.

Very different from believing in a big bearded guy throwing a switch.


-----Original Message-----
From: jbor at bigpond.com
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:38:27 +1000
Subject: Big Bang?

   > Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:55:00 -0700 
 > Subject: Re: The Wrath of the Intelligent Designer 
 > Cc: pynchon-l@[omitted] 
 > 
  > [...] Our "universal laws" only apply within our universe, and so 
they > do 
 > not say that our universe could not originate from nothing. No 
 > "inconceivable force," forsooth, is required. [...] 
 
  Ah yes, this is the crux of the issue, right here: human Science can't 
explain how the universe came to be any more than human Religion can 
explain how its various "Gods" came to be. The logic of both requires 
an enormous leap of faith on the part of the true believer. 
 
 best