It surprised me that Monsignor Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest. This professor of physics and astronomer at Catholic University of Leuven proposed that the universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition at some finite time in the past, and continues to expand to this day and this has become what the world knows as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe. Now, where had God gone to in the picture and if the Universe is still expanding today, surely it takes more than 6 days to create it, never mind if the days are not actual days or not. Some people prefer to think of each day as a millenium or more but if indeed the process is still going on, it will definitely take more days than presumed. Now, I really do wonder too if the creation of the Universe has been explained in other world religions. Somewhere I may have read that in Buddhism, there is a theory regarding the creation of the Universe similar to the Big Bang theory. I am not sure if it si true. The Buddha has been said to have divided all questions into four classes:Questions that deserve a yes or no answer.
Questions that deserve an analytical answer, defining and qualifying the terms of the question.
Questions that deserve a counter-question.
Questions that deserve to be put aside.
The last class of question consists of those that don't lead to the end of suffering and I suppose the question on the creation of the universe falls under under this category.
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