What if the universe had no beginning?

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49. Science and religion often say the

same things, in different ways. Carl Sagan pointed that out in his book, Dragons of Eden.

The human mind is incapable of complete objectivity. We start developing frameworks of perception from the time we are born and our experiences throughout life build on them. So despite all our efforts to maintain objectivity, our subjective experiences creep in. It may be that the human mind is hard wired to perceive things in certain patterns, as Jung pointed out regarding a collective unconscious.

So scientists do extremely well with objectivity despite, or maybe in cooperation with, our inescapable subjectivity. Modern technology in all fields is evidence of scientific success. But when it comes to developing theories from scientific evidence, science can overlap with some aspects of religious theology.

It's been a long time since I read Dragons of Eden, but if I remember right, he drew parallels in thought patterns and conceptualization between the order of creation in Genesis and the orders of beginnings and evolution in science. The parallels are not identical in every aspect, but are remarkably similar.

As a child In Sunday School, I was taught that God is not a person or being as we conceive of beings, but is a spirit that always was and always will be, without beginning or end. Now some physicists are describing the universe that way.