I watched a (fascinating) discussion between two scientists yesterday...both atheists, but one of the scientists was based in the very special spin that Buddhism gives to science. So here is a verse that the Buddhist brought up, and I have been thinking about it...so are atoms more fundamental to the elemental structure of the universe or is it stories, or is it something else?
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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
~ Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980), in her poem “Speed of Darkness.”
The Book of Beginnings:
1:1 In the beginning before all things were created, was a Being who inhabited the All-There-Is; and his name was Aye, for he was One.
1:2 Aye was an Epicurean, nay, he was THE Epicurean, and his larder was a cornucopia of culinary delights.
1:3 And Aye feasted.
1:4 Without pausing for sleep or rest he ate continuously for six days and six nights, and then he was filled.
1:5 And on the evening of the sixth day he was no longer able to retain all that he had consumed and a mighty explosion occurred.
1:6 The stars were born, and the planets, and all that there is, and they sped from him at enormous speeds, forming constellations in the firmament.
1:7 And Aye collapsed in intoxicated slumber and lo, it was the seventh day.
So you see, science and religion are wholly compatible.
Benedict Arnold 