the term “Big Bang” is essentially a label put on a (fascinating) mystery. It is used by scientists to express their belief that the universe — more accurately, space-time—had a beginning. Arno Penzias, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering an echo of that beginning in the cosmic microwave background, wrote, “The best data we have … are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms and the Bible as a whole.” Therefore, the Standard (Big Bang) Model developed by physicists and cosmologists can be seen as a scientific unpacking
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