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The "Big Bang" actually started out as a religions belief that some people trace back to Moses and the oral traditions. It became popular around 1000 years ago with a Jewish Rabbi and the mystical school of thought known as Kabbalah. In recent years the Astrophysicists have picked up on the theory.

JohnR7, Christian Forums 19 Comments [3/31/2006 12:00:00 AM]
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#24437
Maggie

My father is a theoretical astrophysicist, and boy would he have a field day with you...

3/31/2006 4:36:26 AM

#24464
Talisman

No really a comment, but...

Yay! My submission was accepted!

Sorry about that. First one. :)

3/31/2006 5:31:41 AM

#24466
Julian

My Dog knows more about Judaism, astrophysics and mysticism than you and she died 25 years ago.

At least she'd know where you pulled that from --- and what you had for breakfast.

3/31/2006 5:34:16 AM

#24475
Papabear

I think your assertion *does* come from an \"oral tradition\" because it really sucks.

Before you educate others you need to educate yourself. Read a real science book. Go to a community college and take a couple of classes. Jeez!

3/31/2006 5:55:26 AM

#24505
Kyle

I know how you feel Talisman! Your first time is always special. :-)

Julian, not to insult your dog, but I'm afraid that inanimate objects know more about astrophyics than our dear JohnR7. My lampshade has zero knowledge, but JohnR7 has a great deal of negative knowledge. That puts my lampshade ahead as far as I'm concerned.

3/31/2006 6:53:25 AM

#24526
Gadren

Well, this was on Wikipedia about the Big Bang:

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# Some students of Kabbalah, deism and other non-anthropomorphic faiths concord with the Big Bang theory, for example connecting it with the theory of \"divine retraction\" (tzimtzum) as explained by the Jewish scholar Moses Maimonides.


However, I don't think that the scientific theory started as Kabbalistic teaching...once the theory was established (around 1927), it's more likely that people found that Kabbalah fit science in some way here.

3/31/2006 11:38:48 AM

#24549
JustinGG

Moses - the proposed author of Genesis, which was inspired by God - also proposed the Big Bang? Interesting...

3/31/2006 2:26:21 PM

#24560
Blurb

Am I the only one that finds it hilarious that he used \"big bang\" and \"oral\" in the same sentence? Sorry, but I can't see much else worth commenting on in the post.

3/31/2006 3:54:37 PM

#24566
g-21-lto

Too bad the \"most edjumacated creationist\" award has already been given out :(

3/31/2006 4:31:15 PM

#24598
TDR

Blurb, you're going to hell.


3/31/2006 8:01:18 PM

#24609
ssdexecutor

I am a devout member of the First Astrophysical Church of Sector 001.

3/31/2006 8:27:01 PM

#24621
Blurb

\"Blurb, you're going to hell\"

In a bucket, no less.

3/31/2006 10:02:05 PM

#25982
Late_Cretaceous

Funny, you don't see the Kabbalah quoted in any of the scientific literatrue .

4/8/2006 7:09:10 PM

#25985
Julian

Hmmmm.

They were the original 'Flat Universers' right?

4/8/2006 7:24:57 PM

#776226
Thejebusfire

[citation needed]

11/20/2008 9:56:39 PM

#776285
dg

There WAS some medieval rabbi (Isaac ben Acre?) who decided that the Universe was 15 billion years old, but ... no. I believe he also said that the Tower of Babel was several billion miles high.

11/20/2008 10:19:54 PM

#776332
anti-nonsense

You phail at history.

11/20/2008 10:33:05 PM

#776376
a mind far far away

LOL, instead of rejecting a scientific theory because it doesn't agree with his beliefs, he throws a curve and says that the scientific theory was actually at first a religious belief. I'm aware that it was a christian who came up with the idea of the Big Bang. But as far as it having anything to do with Kabbalah, that's a new one to me. And BTW, that rabbi you're probably thinking of was Nakhmanides (the Ramban), or his teacher, Isaac the Blind.

11/20/2008 10:47:06 PM

#1410187
Quantum Mechanic

Liar.


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