It was just another Quiz question. Daytime TV is full of them as best I can see (which is not very much)
'How Long ago was the Big Bang?' Was it
a) 14 Billion Years
b) 32 Billion Years
c) 191 Billion Years
I have increasingly felt that quiz masters will need to move away from questions about the Bible. Such is the common ignorance that a question like, Who in the Bible was put in a Lion's Den? is liable to get any answer - The Pope,Nelson Mandella, Robinson Crusoe.
In this brave new world of scriptural ignorance what better substitute than the Big Bang? An absolutely verifiable, without doubt certainty that materialist science has given us. And the answer is . . .
Well I knew the answer was 14 billion - perhaps because I am very sceptical that 14 billion really is the answer. The man questioned was doing very well to this point. He looked perplexed. He guessed the middle one (a method for all multiple choice questions). He was wrong. He shrugged his shoulders at the answer - '"No idea" - and moved on to the lead singer of Bananarama or whatever.
This was interesting. Not because he didn't know, but because he didn't care. His answer was crazily wrong, the other answer bogglingly wrong but it made no difference.
You see, once you attribute the world to the god of Longevity it does not make any difference how many billions of years, trillions of years, you estimate it as. However long ago the supposed Big Bang was, and whatever happened before it, the only question that gives Beginning any meaning is,
"Who was speaking at the time?"
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