Cosmology

Most of what we each ‘know’ is accumulated by associating new information with information that we have remembered previously. Probably most of our knowledge is about the world around us; about how to deal with our environment. What are the dangers, what are the necessities? If we then become aware, as Carl Sagan would say, of the ‘billions and billions’ of things that are beyond our understanding, we are forced to recognize the existence of ‘something’ that is infinitely more knowledgeable and powerful than we. Since early times, mankind has created religions which seek to explain the unexplainable. As our knowledge base increased, the religions became more refined. Usually these religions offered some explanation of how the world was created and attribute this creation to some Supreme Being who, probably, should be worshipped. Beyond this, most then described how we each should act in our everyday lives to most please our Creator. In my mind, Cosmology is the newest religion, and it conjectures that everything was created by a ‘Big Bang’ when an infinitesimal point (of infinite energy?) explodes(?), eventually creating all this mass. The mathematics describe events from a few nanoseconds out to billions of years, thus eliminating the Seven Days story.  The Apostles of this religion have not yet specified how mankind can get along with mankind. All religions require that their adherents have Faith, so questions as to whence cometh the initial energy, etc., are left to that.