Occasionally their insights resonate. It is said that science demystifies nature, but scientists on the frontier are awed by its elegance and harmony. As science reveals the secrets of the universe and deciphers the cosmic code, it evokes wonder. Many scientists have sensed a spiritual dimension in the search for the laws of physics. For Einstein, discerning the laws of nature was a way to discover how God thinks.
Science has no consensus on the ultimate origin.
But both science and religion suggest a radically new reading of Genesis. We have lost our myth - a story, imagined or true, that wrests order from chaos and helps make our experience comprehensible. The universe emerged out of an infinitely small point of space - a singularity. That image is mind-boggling, but its depiction of a primordial instant harmonizes with traditional religious beliefs regarding a definite beginning of the universe. The big bang is a theory, not a fact.