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Cosmology: every culture has
a creation myth. It appears to
almost be a constant of anthropology ..... where there is human culture
there is a sustaining myth of creation that serves to explain the origin
of the universe and the place of the Earth in it. These tales often serve
to reinforce the importance of a particular race within its perceived
world and fill the void of uncertainty.
Creation Myths from
across time and culture
It is natural that even today in our science/technical/materialistic
culture that we also have new creation stories now supported by scientific
theories supported to a large extent by careful observation using recently
developed instruments such as optical or radio telescopes on Earth or
positioned in space such as the
Hubble telescope.
Steven Hawking is the world's leading cosmologist today and has
encapsulated his theories of the origins of the universe in a book called
A Brief
History of Time.
Hawking can be heard doing a voice over on the Pink Floyd Album Division
Bell "Keep Talking"
A) Steady State Universe - the universe is in a steady state
neither expanding or collapsing "is as it was"
B) Expanding Universe a result of Big Bang origins
In 1950 British astronomer
Fred Hoyle, in support of his own opposing
steady-state theory, referred to Gamow’s theory as a mere “big bang,”
but the name stuck.
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