Let’s start with the beginning. In the beginning there was nothing. Then there was an explosion, which incidentally happened to be huge. What caused this explosion? Hard to say. Scientists have been calling it the Big Bang. What happened before the Big Bang? We cannot possibly begin to imagine what the world looked like before this major event, because there was no world. Everything we know today was curled up into a densely packed ball of matter, or should we say energy.
The life forms who inhabit Earth have a limited perspective on the grand scheme of things.
Is all matter energy, or the other way around? After the explosion, things got scattered. The universe was created and has been expanding ever since. Billions, no trillions of planets sprang into existence, with stars and solar systems to go along with them. One of those planets was the Earth, where we are living now. There are many planets where the mysterious force of life blossomed, but the life forms who inhabit Earth have a limited perspective on the grand scheme of things.
Most prominent among these earthly creatures are so-called humans. Some believe they’re the only living beings in the universe. Those people are creationists who propagate an Intelligent Design. Smarter representatives of the human race are physicists and know the question shouldn’t be if there is extraterrestrial life (extraterrestrial meaning outside the Earth) but where there is other life.
On this planet we call Earth, sometimes referred to as the blue planet because of the large amount of water concentrated in gianormous basins the humans call oceans, there have been numerous discussions on the origins of life and the universe. It often comes down to the opposition between religion and science. Religious people believe there is a God. A what? A God is a supernatural, sometimes metaphysical being that cannot be observed with the naked eye.
Nowadays there are three main religions who all take their inspiration from their own book. There’s judaism, the oldest one, out of which christianity was formed (since the Christian prophet/protagonist is a Jew with some new visions and ideas). The third religion originated some 600 years after christianity, and is generally called islam.
God can be male or female, but for some reason all religions are part of the patriarchy.
To date no one has been able to prove the existence of a God who created heaven and earth. And no one will ever prove this, because if there is a creature up in the sky looking down on us, then he or she will have the ability to make itself invisible. God can of course be male or female, but for some reason all religions are part of the patriarchy.
Throughout history people have imagined God as being an old man with a beard. Why this has been the case, is shrouded in mysterious clouds we’ve come to associate with long forgotten times of knights and princesses.
