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| And God said, let there be light, and there
was light. |
| A hundred million years after the beginning, after
electrons had taken up their positions in the orbits of hydrogen and
may be helium atoms, after the intensity of gravity eased and the
universe grew into something more than a black hole, the photons began
to be emitted - the radiation era started and there was light. |
| This was the first phase
of creation - day one. |
| And God said, let there be a firmament
in the midst of waters and let it divide waters from waters.
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| At the time of the birth of our universe or soon after
that, the enormity of the matter in such a small space would have
produced such strong gravity enough to snuff the universe out of existence.
This did not happen and this could have been due to another force
that opposed gravity. This is known as anti-gravity or vacuum force
and could be the same as the cosmological constant in Einstein’s
equations. This is the same force that is said to be responsible for
the recently observed acceleration in the expansion of the universe
that is taking place right now. The scientists had expected the rate
of expansion of the universe to be decreasing and while attempting
to test this hypothesis they found that the rate is increasing. If
this force was present throughout, the matter of the universe would
never have accreted into galaxies and stars. |
| About one billion years after creation gravity overcame
the force of anti-gravity (How? Somehow!) and the lumps in the cosmic
porridge began to accrete into galactic clusters, galaxies and stars.
Thus empty space or firmament was created between the waters of the
world, between stars and between galaxies. The cosmos was no more
without form or void. |
| This was the second phase
of creation - day two. |
| Now follows a mix-up of days three and four. Writers
and speakers had been telling us that we should not take the words
of Genesis literally, only the message. And one of the cases they
cite is that there could have been no light before the sun was created.
But now we know that the sun was created billions of years after the
start of the radiation era, when light started to shine in the cosmos.
But the mix-up of days three and four cannot be overlooked. A writer,
even if he did not have the privilege of divine inspiration, did not
need lessons in modern biology or cosmology to know that plants and
trees did not exist before sun and moon, before seasons, before days
and night came to the scene. The most probable cause of this discrepancy
could be a human error of one of the early scribes in copying the
available text, unless it was a pointed reminder that things should
not be taken too literally like 144 hors for creation. Now let us
proceed to the next phase in creation, switching days three and four. |
| And God made two great lights; the greater
light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he
made the stars also. |
| In the galaxies that were formed about one billion
years after the cosmic genesis, stars started full scale production
of heavier elements by the fusion of the nuclei of the lighter elements.
Once a star had spent all its nuclear fuel, it ended its life as a
white dwarf, neutron star, black hole or in a supernova explosion.
From the immense amounts or gases and particles in the empty space
as wells from the debris of the dead stars or supernovae, from these
star dusts, new stars were born. Some nine billion years after creation
a new star was created with an orbiting nebula of dust and gases containing
all sorts of elements from the star dust. In course of time this nebula
accreted into planets, satellites and asteroids orbiting the star,
the sun. One of these planets, the earth, had its rotation, revolution
and tilt so accurately planned to have ideal conditions of suitable
lengths of day and night, changing seasons. This unique planet also
had all sorts of elements some very rare elsewhere in the universe.
The elements heavier than iron are not formed in the nuclear furnace
of even the biggest of stars. The scientists do not yet know how these
elements have been created. Some suggest the collision of neutron
stars, itself so rare an event, as a possible cause of the production
of these. Somehow this unique planet was created to be the ideal home
for life, for the human beings. |
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