Over and over again these thoughts on creation, creationism, big bangs, invisible beginnings, intelligent design--The Scopes Monkey Trial, bloggerized. Anyway, about ten minutes after I got back into VA my father and I somehow fell into one of those typical father-daughter conversations dealing with the aforementioned topics of creation, science; faith and fact. We are so similar in almost every way, except I am a Christian and he's a rather adamant agnostic. It was a great conversation nonetheless. I finished my biography of Edna Millay (very tragic) and while home my father gave me another book to follow it up. Well it doesn't really flow nicely after the biography of a jazz-age poet-morphine addict but it does stay along that vague non-fiction line. I just started A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. I guess creation is not something I've ever poured over in any sort of detail, more so along the lines of "Did it happen?" "How did it start?" and "According to evolution, are Rush Limbaugh and an opinionated hippo really that far apart?" I studied science--I am not a strict creationist, nor I am a hardcore big bang theorist. I am somewhere in the grey. At least I think I am. Now to bring facts and concepts into the frame--I am humbled and silenced. Sizes of things that are 10^-43. Can something come from nothing? Where did the nothing come from? How did space and gravity and heat and atoms swirl and coalesce into this?
Rush to an opinionated hippo? I'd say like two or three steps. Maybe a walrus or drunk ape in between.
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