Current theories --if I am not mistaken-- point to a singularity that was smaller than an atom, which then exploded outwards and generated all of the mass of the current universe. There are lots of guesses as to what that means. Perhaps our universe is a lump of mass in a self-perpetuating, trillions-of-years cycle of expansion and implosion. Perhaps it is just one of many, many universes in a massive "universe broth" where universes of all shapes and sizes constantly bubble into and out of existence. Perhaps it's the result of Hans Reinhardt sending the crew of the Palomino through a black hole!
Lots of things about the universe are mind-bending due to scale. Anything we build around it is going to be just as mind-bending. God seems less so because we've shrunk him down to a scale that we are more comfortable with, even as we describe him as the infinite creator of the too-big-to-comprehend universe. But without that protective layer of humanity he's even more big and incomprehensible, IMO.
Lots of things about the universe are mind-bending due to scale. Anything we build around it is going to be just as mind-bending. God seems less so because we've shrunk him down to a scale that we are more comfortable with, even as we describe him as the infinite creator of the too-big-to-comprehend universe. But without that protective layer of humanity he's even more big and incomprehensible, IMO.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
