Stumbled across this funny little quote from astrophysicist Robert Jastrow in The Language of God by biologist Francis Collins.
“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries”
He’s commenting on the seeming obliteration of any physical trace of history prior to the Big Bang, and the Christian claims that God initiated the Big Bang.
Earlier he states: “Now we see how the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements and the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same; the chain of events leading up to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of flight and energy”
I’m three chapters in – plenty to think about!
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