Regarding the June 14 letter, “Bible encourages scientific method“: What is offered in this opinion is contrary to the writer’s statement, “…Our best cosmological evidence points overwhelmingly both to an absolute beginning of our universe in the Big Bang and, also to a very high level of a number of factors that were in play (both strong and weak atomic forces, gravity, etc.).”

True, the factors of gravity (G), electro-magnetism (E-M), strong nuclear force (S), and weak nuclear or messenger force (W), were a part of the tiny “nugget” of energy existing prior to the Big Bang. But not true that the Big Bang was the creation of the universe; it was, actually, an expansion or inflation of that tiny nugget of already existing universe — energy of extremely hot gases.

And from 1982 on, we know the subatomic particles, or quarks, in quantum mechanics also existed before the Big Bang. So did three space dimensions, and a fourth dimension — time — and probably six more dimensions. Thus Big Bang was not the beginning of time. Also, much later, after thousands of years of gaseous cooling, the earth was created in the form of visible matter. And “God created the heavens and earth” — there are six heavens.

Norm Kosky
Camano Island