Interesting, and well written! And -- with the "money quote" as the climax!
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Actually, the Biblical version is not a theory, per se. It is a set of ordered, sequential statements -- claimed to be fact.
Furthermore, those claims (and the order in which they are made) can be examined against the best scientific theories and measurements mankind has devised to date.
As a physical scientist, I consider those "bald-faced" claims in Genesis I to be "The most outrageous claims ever made"
As a believer in Divine Creation, I see them as outrageous, indeed -- but, TRUE!
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Circa 2012, I assigned myself the "trivial" '-) task of comparing -- on a timeline, graphically -- those claims -- and the order and sequence in which they were made -- against the current scientific thinking on the origin and development of our universe.
My working title for that effort is
The Most Outrageous Claims Ever Made
...a scientist looks at the first four verses of Genesis...
To "whet your appetite", here is one frame from that graphic presentation:
It uses fireworks as an illustration of Kaku's point in this posted article: there is ANisotropy (a differentiation, a pattern, a design) imposed upon this universe. Without that ANisotropy, neither stars, nor galaxies -- nor we -- could exist!
Many of you will see fireworks displays this Fourth of July. They usually start with an ISOtropic "big bang", which flashes and booms -- and dissipates into nothing.
Later, the crowd will "OOOH!" over beautiful, multicolored, ANisotropic fireworks masterpieces like the second graphic. Those spectacular works are carefully designed and constructed: the one depicted has hundreds of identical pellets with a Cobalt (blue) core, a magnesium powder (white) layer, and an outer shell (which burns first) containing Strontium (red) salts.
Our universe is far, far more complex, intricate, and amazingly-designed than any firework!
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Without ANisotropy in our univrese, we wouldn't exist.
Without ISOtropy, we couldn't survive...
TXnMA, ca 2010...
