In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:1
I was hardly prepared for what Bolloré and Bonnassies reveal about efforts across Europe to discredit the idea of a beginning to the universe — by any means necessary.
The authors tell us that the idea was controversial because it raised the likelihood of a Creator after centuries of science advances that seemed to put the matter in doubt:
"This point is crucial because if science confirms that time, space, and matter had an absolute beginning, it becomes clear that the Universe proceeds from a cause that is neither temporal, spatial, nor material. In other words, it proceeds from a transcendent, non-natural cause at the origin of all that exists and, as we shall see, at the origin of the extreme fine-tuning of the Universe’s initial parameters and the laws of physics and biology, which are indispensable for the existence and evolution of atoms, stars, and complex life. p. 99."
Trashing Big Bang theorist Georges Lemaître (1894-1966) for being a priest and ridiculing the theory itself was a comparatively benign response."
Denyse O’Leary
