tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589257747317621588.post4392294413674631714..comments2023-09-28T03:01:54.769-07:00Comments on disambiguation: Sunday secularism blogging: picking up the memeellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15308264045246008025noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6589257747317621588.post-80424666939447586012007-01-28T21:34:00.000-08:002007-01-28T21:34:00.000-08:00The Christian right dismisses scientific paradigms...The Christian right dismisses scientific paradigms like evolution and the Big Bang as simply another set of beliefs--although of course they're seen as quite erroneous because they conflict with the Genesis model. It intrigues me that the Catholic church, going way back to Pius XII, embraced the idea of creation ex nihilo even before the Big Bang theory was fully articulated. So do some versions of the Kabbalah, and the model of the oscillating universe has roots in Hinduism. <br /><br />The difference, of course, is that the theists look at creation ex nihilo and magically discover the Uncaused Cause--or the Sky Fairy (to use Ellis' quaint term)--lurking behind it. By contrast, cosmologists consider the singularity at the moment before the Big Bang, look for what might have preceded (or caused) it, find no evidence and conclude, <i>for now</i>, that it's a mystery.Geaghanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02418809643367026516noreply@blogger.com