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Today, August 28, the Universal Church specially venerates St. Augustine of Hippo, Bishop, Father and Doctor of the Church (354-430). He was doubtless one of the world’s greatest thinkers; as a theologian and philosopher he is outstanding among the Church Fathers for the influence he wielded.
I read in a write up regarding him that he had a remarkable conception of the creation of the world, by which God gave matter once for all, the power and life germs which would ensure the general unfolding and development of the cosmos. In this, I see strong hints of the Big Bang Theory as well as the Theory of Evolution.
I say this because Darwin suggested that evolution commenced with a single single-cell organism and Stephen Hawking proposed that the whole universe has unraveled from a microscopic, intensely dense sub-atomic particle (which he termed as “the Singularity”). Riding on St. Augustine, I therefore happily imagine that God packed all the laws of Science that would thenceforth govern matter - living and non-living - into the initial sub-atomic particle and then switched on the ‘auto-pilot’ or lit the fuse which set off the Big Bang. The only exception is the soul, which He infuses individually and immediately into each human being at the time of conception.
Salute St. Augustine the scientist!
I read in a write up regarding him that he had a remarkable conception of the creation of the world, by which God gave matter once for all, the power and life germs which would ensure the general unfolding and development of the cosmos. In this, I see strong hints of the Big Bang Theory as well as the Theory of Evolution.
I say this because Darwin suggested that evolution commenced with a single single-cell organism and Stephen Hawking proposed that the whole universe has unraveled from a microscopic, intensely dense sub-atomic particle (which he termed as “the Singularity”). Riding on St. Augustine, I therefore happily imagine that God packed all the laws of Science that would thenceforth govern matter - living and non-living - into the initial sub-atomic particle and then switched on the ‘auto-pilot’ or lit the fuse which set off the Big Bang. The only exception is the soul, which He infuses individually and immediately into each human being at the time of conception.
Salute St. Augustine the scientist!