Because each of these religions has a different God, each of these religions has its own unique set of scriptures that contain “God’s law” as revealed to humanity through prophets. That each of these three religion claims to be the sole representative of the “One True God” has been, and continues to be, the basis of endless bloodshed, political struggle, and a ferocious fight with Atheism. The implications of how our Universe began are enormous, particularly with respect to the power, wealth, aggression, and influence that are embodied within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Unlike Divine Creation, the Big Bang is a purely physical explanation for the origin of the Universe that does not require a God to explain anything. As such, the Big Bang is an Atheistic account of the origins of the Universe. There are differing schools of thought concerning the Big Bang. This book refers to what is called the “standard model” of the Big Bang. In simple terms, the standard model describes a mysterious singularity that contained within it all of the time, space, matter and energy that now fills our Universe. The appearance of the singularity is left unexplained because it cannot be explained at present by Science.

The term “Big Bang” describes a high-energy event during which the singularity “exploded” and hyper-expanded into the super-dense, super-hot early Universe. After some period, the super-dense early Universe cooled down and expanded sufficiently to allow matter to aggregate into the first generation galaxies. These galaxies and their stars died off. In doing so, they formed the metals and gases that were hurled off into space when stars exploded. The fundamental forces in the cosmos aggregated this matter and formed it into new galaxies, stars, nebulae, and planets. The simplistic diagram below represents our Universe expanding and evolving from the Big Bang forward. In the illustration below, we represent the primeval quark plasma converting into early matter, light, stars, and galaxies via E=MC². The three black disks represent the generations of stars and galaxies since the beginning of time.

The physical Big Bang model conceives of Earth as being a product of the stellar evolution. Over time, gasses, metals, water, and minerals aggregated into a disc that was early our solar system. The forces at work formed our Sun and its planets. Once Earth cooled down and an atmosphere formed, the processes of stellar evolution spontaneously began. Matter was transformed into simple forms of life by the processes of biological evolution. Over geological time scales, natural selection is said to have taken simple life forms and increasingly evolved then into highly intelligent and highly ordered structures such as DNA. In turn, DNA became the basis of ever more increasingly complex life forms. Hominids appeared and from our early genetic ancestors, human eventually evolved. 

Natural selection is driven by the environment: Whatever can adapt to its environment will survive and reproduce itself. Whatever cannot adapt will die off. Early organisms transmitted cellular information with each generation. Adaptations in structures happened over long periods. The Earth in its present form is rich in biological life that emerged from a long evolutionary series of events that Science broadly traces back to the Big Bang. This book recognizes that there are intellectual challenges to the Big Bang model. However, these challenges, which include inflation and baryogenesis, are outside of the scope of this book. The standard model of the Big Bang is accepted for the purposes of this work. The outdated Steady State theory is also not considered in this book.

Left unexplained in the various Big Bang models is what caused the Big Bang. To speculate about the cause of the Big Bang presently calls for metaphysical speculation, an activity disallowed in Science. When Science wishes to indulge in metaphysics, it usually does so by using Science Fiction or very large numbers. Science Fiction allows people to safely play “what if” games and not call it Science. Furthermore, if one inserts enough zeroes into a given hypothesis, then the odds in favor the hypothesis improve dramatically; a billion billion zeroes give any hypothesis much better odds than one billion zeroes.

Evolution, which is informed by scienticism, has become the main tool used by many in Science to negate God and Religion. Some scientists use popular books to argue against the existence of God and in favor of Evolution. The God Delusion, written by the esteemed Dr. Richard Dawkins of Oxford, is currently the preeminent popular book devoted to debunking God and Divine Creation. Intelligent, aggravating, and hilarious, Saint Richard the Darwin-Hearted charges forth and slays many of the improbable dragons of Monotheism that assail his sensibilities with their Old Testament wrath.

My book makes landfall somewhere between Religion and Science, for in opening Pandora’s Box, I present an alternative to both Divine Creation and the Big Bang. I use three different terms to describe my alternative:

TechnoMysticism: This term refers to my work as a fusion of Technology and Mysticism. Having worked professionally in technical writing and technical sales for thirty years for companies including Hughes Aircraft, Philips, and Siemens, I have gained a deep appreciation for Science and Technology. I have a Bachelor’s degree in English. I began my career as a technical writer at Hughes Aircraft. However, most of my career has been spent in general, technical, and medical lighting. I have worked with lasers, endoscopes, UV-C air and water disinfection, and spectrophotometers and many other specialized lighting and photonics devices.

In contrast to my technical work, I have been drawn to Mysticism since the beginning of my life. The first thing I remember in this life was awakening from a past life. I had other intense psychic experiences as a child. These experiences have continued throughout my life. It took a long time to understand the experiences and my destiny: I am a natural born Mystic. That is why I am writing this book. As a young man, I became a devoted Christian. I was part of the original Jesus People in Orange County, California in the early 1970’s. I saw Calvary Chapel in the tent, had long hair, did street preaching, and received my education at Vanguard University of Southern California in Costa Mesa, a scant few blocks from Calvary Chapel. 

Third Option Cosmology: To hear some people argue origins, one must choose either Divine Creation or the Big Bang. This approach demands that people choose Religion or Science. This is an absurd demand. I present the unique Third Option I discovered as a way to expand the debate between Creationists and Big Bangers. 

DX Teaching: My book presents a new cosmology. In doing so, it opens a box full of new ideas that challenge the basis of conventional religious thinking and beliefs. You will see me use the term “DX” many times in this book. The term is pronounced “day” and refers to the event that preceded the Big Bang. One of the questions I answer in this book is the one that asks, “What caused the Big Bang?”

 LIVING FORWARD, LOOKING BACKWARDS

One of the wisest things I have ever learned was spoken of by Søren Kierkegaard: