The Origin of the Universe

Francis collins writes about this. He says, we have this very solid conclusion that the universe had an origin. 15 billion years ago, the universe began with an unimaginably flash of energy from an infinitesimally small point. That implies that before that, there was nothing. And it seems to me that person had to be outside of nature. Thereis a kind of religion in science. Every event can be explained in a rational way, as the product of some previous event. But now science has proved that the universe exploded into being at a certain moment. This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but the theologians. They've always accepted the word of the

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