key concepts

Big Bang-  The idea that the universe originated in an explosion of light, matter and energy that created time and space. 

Category Mistake- The reading of one literary form in the Bible as though it were another literary form.

Creationism- a literalist understanding of the origins of the cosmos and human beings.

First cause- the reality that caused everything to exist.

Fundamentalist- someone who takes the Bible literally.

Liberalist- someone who reads the Bible and interprets it.

Humanism- an approach which exludes God and His notions. 

Steady state- galaxies form every now and then out of created matter and in which there is neither…