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| Our reading assignment last week delt with basic creation stories. It's interesting how similar they all are. Most begin with nothing but the existance of a supreme being, from himself he produces a female, together they create everything we see in existance today. Did anyone else find the greek creation story a bit confusing? Trying to figure out who begot who by whom is like trying to look through a pile of shavings to figure out what the original tree looked like. www.hol.gr/greece/godft.htm This is a link to a picture of the Greek Gods Family Tree. I don't know if anyone went to my 'About Me' page, but if you did you'll know that though I'm an English major, I'm minoring in physics. So when I got to the end of the reading assignment and saw 'The Big Bang Theory' I got quite a chuckle. Though one day science may prove that the big bang did not happen, current evidence has made it the dominant scientific theory out there. The pope has even made public his acceptance of it. It seems to me that with the evidence supporting it and the current enthusiasm of the scientific community it shouldn't be classed (at least not yet) as a myth. Since it is, are we to assume that anything classed as a 'theory' must also be classed as a myth? Below is a link to a totally different Adam and Eve myth than anything I've ever heard of, makes me think of the old Greek stories. According to this, Eve was a pretty racy gal. |
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| For English 309 |
| Big Bang Theory: In a nut shell, the Big Bang Theory says that at time t=0, all the matter in the universe was condensed into a single point with zero volume and infinate density. ( t=0 was around 16 billion years ago). People commonly think of the big bang as an explosion, however to view an explosion one must be outside of the system exploding, meaning people assume that space (or space-time) existed already and the 'explosion' just spewed out a bunch of crap that became stars, planets, and all of existance. This 'model' is incorrect in that there wasn't anything outside of that single point (well, that we know of, or have the scientifical ability to see).. A better way to think of it is to imagine the universe to be the shell of a balloon, the inside & outside being different dimensions than anything we can get to. One day air is blown into the balloon and it expands. The Big Bang predicted that we should still be able to see the remnants or the initial 'explosion' today as something termed 'Cosmic Background Radiation'. In 1964 this radiation was discovered exactly as predicted by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. This that I've just written has come off the top of my head from what I remember from my Phys. 480 class. For more info go to the above link and check it out, it's actually pretty cool. |
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| Link To a Big Bang Site |
| Link to a different take of the Adam &Eve myth |
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