Saturday, March 18, 2006

Inflation

Big Bang has not been definitively confirmed yet but we have moved one step closer towards that confirmation. A NASA satellite, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, has sent new data to suggest that the universe, 13.7 billion years old, did experience a rapid inflation in the first one trillionth of a second. It was during these first few moments that the universe ”underwent a violent growth spurt, ballooning from submicroscopic to astronomical size in the blink of an eye”.

This should help to dispel the literalist interpreters of the story of biblical creation. Maybe, after all, this world was not created for us but that we are off this world, we evolved from. Lynn White was right all along, it is the Judeo-Christian story that lies at the root cause of ecological deprivations.