by margaret hillcroft

Created on: January 09, 2009   Last Updated: February 01, 2010

Big Bang of Big Man? This is an either/or question and I really do not see why it needs to be.

I have an idea. I am going to make a cake. Big Woman! I get the egg out of the fridge and crack it on the side of the bowl and chuck in some flour, sugar, fat and fruit. Big Bang. I put it in the oven and leave it for the physics and chemistry to work their little miracles. And lo! On the third day there was cake. And I ate it and saw that it was good.

This is how I see creation. Years ago I watched a series called Cosmos presented by Carl Sagan. One small part of that program has stuck in my mind for threee decades. It was Carl's easy to understand explanation of dimensions. He managed to explain to me how a two dimensional, flat being could not see a three dimensional being. He also explained that the two dimensional being, if it had nerve sensors, would be able to sense the presence of the three dimensional being even though it could not see it.

Science can explain many things. A chemist or physicist could easily explain to me why the ingredients in my mixing bowl have merged and reacted and risen with the application of heat to create a fruit cake. It's all to do with atoms and molecules and the exertion of force , catalysts and the expansion created by heat and other chemical and physical processes. Science can explain all the myriad of "ingredients" , reactions, fusions and forces required to create a "Big Bang" and I do not for one second doubt it. I simply question who was the cook who had the idea in the first place. Who got the egg out of the fridge?

I am not sure it was a Big Man. It might have been any kind of Intelligence. It may have existed then and not now. It may have just fired the starting gun and disintgrated or self destructed or flown off to create another Universe somewhere else.

I do understand, thanks to Carl Sagan, that a being of a certain type might not be able to see another being of a different dimension yet still know that it is there. I wonder if that is why, for all our scientific knowledge and explanations, the idea of some kind of Supreme Being won't just lie down and die.

All we know for sure is that somehow a cake got made and we are just one of the ingredients. The cake is still in the oven, it is not yet finished, still evolving. Who made it I cannot say and nor can anyone else. I can explain the scientific processes but what started them, out of nothing and why ........? Maybe we really are not supposed to know the answer to those questions. Personally I am quite happy to be a little sultana in the great fruitcake of life! The Big Man did once say something eating from the tree of knowledge. And there are many who would say they have sensed a Presence. We are too small to know. We have to imagine a Being so huge that 1.000.000 of our years was 1 day to Him.

Big Something AND Big Bang makes more sense than either one or the other. Whatever, "IT" is, it is so vast I doubt we could even begin to see even the end of the great Creators eyelash. Maybe we need to stop asking these questions and listen! OM.

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