XPost: alt.agnosticism, talk.atheism, alt.atheism   
   XPost: alt.philosophy   
   From: plato5@dreft.org   
      
   Pro-Humanist FREELOVER wrote:   
      
   The big bang is a myth.   
   What is going on is the big banging.   
      
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   > Certainly, thinking outside the box can and   
   > has led to many fascinating perspectives on   
   > what, exactly, the nature of 'all' is.   
   >   
   > The 'big bang', assumptions are that it banged   
   > into a void, yet in the past 10 years, scientists   
   > have discovered that bang isn't slowing down.   
   > Instead, it's speeding up.   
   >   
   > They refer to it as a force, the cause of the   
   > speeding up, yet you rarely hear the question,   
   > "What did the 'big bang' bang into?"   
   >   
   > The standard presumption is that there was   
   > nothing, a bang, and then everything. More   
   > recently, scientists have theorized about   
   > a before the big bang realm, and of many   
   > dimensions possibly existing beyond the   
   > -4- we're familiar with.   
   >   
   > Multiple universes, also part of the possible   
   > realm of the 'all'.   
   >   
   > Cyclic universes, also part of the possible   
   > realm of the all.   
   >   
   > Infinite universes, infinite time, also part of   
   > the possible realm of the all.   
   >   
   > As for what the totality of 'all' that is natural   
   > is, exactly, actualized human knowledge is   
   > profoundly sparse, thus far, even though   
   > theories abound.   
   >   
   > Being that the investigation remains at a point   
   > of unknowns and theory, along with occasional   
   > enlightening discoveries like the accelerating   
   > expansion of the particular universe we hap-   
   > pen to reside in, it's no wonder that it's taken   
   > so long to turn away from myths and religions   
   > and to embark on a course in which science   
   > is actively investigating the matter.   
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   > On another front ...   
   >   
   > Humans, the only intelligent sentient cogni-   
   > zant beings anywhere, anywhen, -or- one   
   > of many?   
   >   
   > Unknown, yet.   
   >   
   > How, exactly, did chemistry result in replicat-   
   > ing matter and complex beings like us, being   
   > here?   
   >   
   > Certainly, a lot more is known than what our   
   > ancestors of the 18th century knew. Even   
   > so, much remains to be discovered, and it's   
   > science, not religion, that offers the most   
   > estimable and provable path to the answer.   
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