„In vielen Kulturen ist die übliche Antwort, dass ein Gott oder Götter das Universum aus dem Nichts erschaffen haben. Aber wenn wir diese Frage mutig weiterverfolgen wollen, müssen wir natürlich die nächste Frage stellen: Woher kam Gott? Wenn wir entscheiden, dass dies eine unbeantwortbare Frage ist, warum nicht einen Schritt speichern und daraus schließen, dass der Ursprung des Universums eine unbeantwortbare Frage ist? Oder, wenn wir sagen, dass Gott immer existiert hat, warum nicht einen Schritt retten und daraus schließen, dass das Universum immer existiert hat? Dass es keiner Schöpfung bedarf, war es schon immer hier. Das sind keine einfachen Fragen. Die Kosmologie stellt uns vor die tiefsten Geheimnisse, Fragen, die einst nur in Religion und Mythos behandelt wurden.“
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In many cultures, the customary answer is that a God or Gods created the Universe out of nothing. But if we wish to pursue this question courageously, we must of course ask the next question: where did God come from? If we decide that this is an unanswerable question, why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the Universe is an unanswerable question? Or, if we say that God always existed, why not save a step, and conclude that the Universe always existed? That there's no need for a creation, it was always here. These are not easy questions. Cosmology brings us face to face with the deepest mysteries, questions that were once treated only in religion and myth.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), "The Edge of Forever" [Episode 10]
Kontext: But we don't yet know whether the Universe is open or closed. More than that, there are a few astronomers who doubt that the redshift of distant galaxies is due to the doppler effect, who are skeptical of the expanding Universe and the Big Bang. Perhaps our descendants will regard our present ignorance with as much sympathy as we feel to the ancients for not knowing the Earth went around the Sun. If the general picture, however, of a Big Bang followed by an expanding Universe is correct, what happened before that? Was the Universe devoid of all matter and then the matter suddenly somehow created, how did that happen? In many cultures, the customary answer is that a God or Gods created the Universe out of nothing. But if we wish to pursue this question courageously, we must of course ask the next question: where did God come from? If we decide that this is an unanswerable question, why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the Universe is an unanswerable question? Or, if we say that God always existed, why not save a step, and conclude that the Universe always existed? That there's no need for a creation, it was always here. These are not easy questions. Cosmology brings us face to face with the deepest mysteries, questions that were once treated only in religion and myth.
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