Introduction

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the Earth: and the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the earth. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
Gen 1:1-3
The first three verses of the Bible are God's own words (with different versions in different beliefs all boiling down to more or less the same thing) of the Beginning of all space, time and matter of the universe. It has a curious form of simplicity and a perfection that resembles the equation relating matter and energy in Einstein's theory of Relativity, E=mc^2. Such that, almost the entire human race backs on it for explanation of origin. But naturally most of us are left asking the very questions it appears to answer. For example:
- Where did the universe come from
- When did it come to place
- What occurrences led to the present observable universe
- Why did it come to place
In a normal case scenario the last enquiry is left for philosophers and theologians. While the rest are considered not too complicated to be theorized, tested and calculated within the precincts of the laboratory.

Some of us, well, most of us regard all of them to be questions that one should not waste time trying to figure out but issues that had long been addressed in the Bible. Such an argument inclines all the answers to religion. And as Bishop Archer in 1928 calculated using the timeline in the Bible, the universe was created about 6000 years ago. Or more accurately, on the night of 20th October 4004 B.C. By God.

However, as the rest would argue, this is taking the Bible too literally; because it disagrees with some of the natural observations. This view urges a couple of us to a quest to find the truth. A quest that relies on numbers, logic and reality. A quest that is as old as humanity itself. And a quest that has made man who he is, with what is around him. A quest that has credited some the title Scientist.
In our search for the answers and for our usual exploration oriented mind we perform experiments, make observations, do calculations and create a model of our world. This model which can be accounted for by science seems to emerge from a series of patterns, mathematical equations and natural laws. The model is apparently perfect rational and explainable by the Bible in the normal world. Yet when investigated towards the beginning it tends to become parallel to the Biblical explanation. Then it becomes reasonable that the Bible doesn't say it all or it is written in codes that we haven't decoded yet.

From our observations there are things a lot older than all the time narrated in the Bible. For example, archeologists have discovered fossils of plants and animals dating to millions of years back. The youngest fossils of so known dinosaurs date back to 65 millions years back. While the oldest date to as far back as million years ago when they first appeared on earth. Other single celled organisms date to as far back as 3 billion years ago. Another example is blackholes. Blackholes are stars that died after consumption of most of their fuel. Mm-mh! They are not windows to other worlds as is claimed in the cartoons! Just like the sun, the stars produce light by turning their mass into luminous energy. After a long period of time, it uses up its fuel and collapses into a high density and low energy state. This process takes billions of years. And because such dead stars exist they must have been around for quite some time. Like er…billions of years. Unless of course they were born dead! So where does the discrepancy come from?