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I love the Big Bang metaphor and that other metaphor, “hot dense primordial soup of matter.” I think it is important to distinguish between universe and what was there before the Bang.

What if “creator” is the most overused word in the origins debate? We open the box marked God and find not one idea but a tangle: a warrior deity with blood on his hands, an omnipresent spirit without edges, and a philosophical placeholder inherited from ages before telescopes and particle accelerators. When a technologist says the universe came from “something,” we ask whether that something needs a will, a workshop, or only the strange generosity of quantum law.

One conclusion from Big Bang is for sure and that is the state of God 13.7 billion years ago. Yahweh-Christ did not exist, but the component parts did in the form of particles.

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Existentialism is a way of life to rival faith. Elon Musk the tech titan understands rocket science but what possible use could that be to the man who said he was Yahweh. Poor Yahweh-Christ, the laughingstock of Galilee and Judea. He was non-compliant and therefore qualified as a sinner. As far as the "teachers of the law" or Pharisees were concerned he was a joke. He was the man who said he was God. They hounded him to the cross.

Jesus of Nazareth was accustomed to emotional turmoil. Every fight he got into with pharisees he reminded them of Abraham their father and his friend. Abraham at least gave him the courtesy of hearing him out. On Good Friday of Passion Week they finally let him speak. They were unimpressed and he was crucified.

Jesus of Nazareth was a man of his place and of his times. It was difficult finding things he and Elon Musk have in common.

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