We were at Francesca and Dave’s, our granddaughter and her husband, in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee.
The Tennessee part has nothing to do with this thought. I noticed my granddaughter had a brand new paperback bible on the table. I asked her why she had it.
She said she bought it because whe wanted to read it. At that moment, I thought of my atheism and started mulling over an idea.
Being a writer, these light bulbs are always flashing over my head.
Having been into studying as best as one can about cosmology, quantum physics etc. I thought about the big bang. Maybe it should be capitalized. In any case, I thought it might put a new look on Genesis. For example “In the beginning, there was a big bang and then there were photons. Inasmuch as Genesis is really involved with populating the earth with all the begatting, I found it hard to follow up my Big Bang Bible similarly. So what then? Well, there’s tentatively, the Book of Einstein to explain the photon stuff. After all, he did get the Nobel Prize for ‘light.’ even though he didn’t create it.
Then there’s the Book of Planck who put light into bundles, the Book of Heisenberg, whose uncertainty principle caused him to declare, “We can never know anything.” That, you might think, is very limiting, but it’s amazing how far we’ve come since his declaration. We’d have to wait 13 billion years or so before the rock called Earth existed. The book would be too long. But once here, the Book of Newton would explain why we don’t fly off into space. As you can see, the problems I might have with this book analogy are probably too great. But it was worth following the light bulb.