“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This is how the Bible kicks off, and for almost two millennia was the accepted theory for how the Universe and the Earth came into being. A tricky subject and something that takes a great deal of thought to even contemplate, the origin of time is not an easy thing to study. Up until modern technological advances and the advent of space telescopes it would in fact seem logical to credit a divine being with the creation of the Universe, simply for lack of a better explanation. However what this simple sentence does not explain is how the Universe was created, it merely says that it was done.
In the late 19th century and early 20th century scientific thinking began to overtake religious ideas as men such as Darwin and Einstein began to publish their theories. Many of the new scientific ideas would look to explain the laws that govern the way things are and the way that they came to be. While Darwin would upset a great number of religious people with his ideas on the origin of life on Earth, Einstein and his contemporaries’ ideas would cause relatively less […]

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