Big Bang theory explains death of God

The most interesting characteristic of the human mind is how it invents things to answer the unknown. This delicious little fact spans every facet of humanity.

In the same way a child sees a boogie monster in the dark, man has tirelessly drawn the most detailed pictures of the glory of Heaven, the treacherous depths of Hell, hideous yet intelligent aliens, vampires, and even the benign yet almost omnipotent Superman.

Sooner or later, though, a provable scientific explanation comes out. There is a sort of dull sigh of relief and we have to go find something else to imagine. Remember when you found out the Tooth Fairy was your parents?

Science moves undeniably fast. So fast that it seems that we often forget to go back and imagine new answers based on current facts.

I'm feeling daring, so forgive me if I swing at the ancient piñata of controversy: God.

The grand masterpiece of man's imagination, God is the world's most fantastic boogie man that gets blamed for absolutely everything unknown.

The Creator of Heaven and Hell has all the answers, but he seems to hide stoically behind dark Oakleys as we try to peek frantically at his cards. The problem is that man, equipped with his trusty scientific method, has figured out quite a few answers too.

So, we need to update our boogie man. Exercising my ludicrous imagination: God is dead. Actually, he killed himself.

There was no one else that could do the job; so big G took care of it himself. He must have been tired of being God and doing God things. And when he did, there was a massive explosion of everything that we now lovingly call the Big Bang.

Now lets see if my wild conjecture passes the test of modern facts: we know that the Big Bang occurred some 14 billion years ago, causing time, matter and energy to swirl around. Using words like gravity, fusion, primordial soup, evolution, the wheel and fire, we can more or less trace everything back to then.

But we cannot exactly say how the Big Bang started, and we cannot explain why God has not revealed himself to the point that we all agree on his existence...well, at least as much as we all agree that the earth is round (a recent idea, by the way).

So what do we do? As through the ages of time, we just blame the lonely boogie man for the Big Bang and tweak the explanation so that it also illustrates why there has been no undisputable evidence of God since then.

It is what the ancient Greeks did when they witnessed inexplicable electrical discharges and loud sounds from the sky-they created Zeus, an all-powerful god who unleashed thunder and lightning at will.

Now we call it mythology and learn about it in literature class, and even little children openly laugh at the once-serious explanations of nature's unknown occurrences.

I am only left to wonder at what point in time the religions that we believe in so fiercely today will be reduced to "mythology." Just think, the Bible or the Koran taught as fictional literature to sixth graders!

I'll be the first one to feel sad when we discover the true cause of the Big Bang, as there's joy in wildly solving the unknown.

Unfortunately, public imagination comes with a price, as imaginative ideas are a dangerous thing to share. Galileo was imprisoned and silenced by the Catholic church for arguing that the Earth goes around the Sun (how silly!).

I'm sure I've accidentally offended several people by sharing my argument, which I feel is understandable as it is uncomfortable to challenge fundamental explanations, even just a little bit.

Don't be offended; instead let your own ideas fly and see what you come up with. Who knows, you may just be right and get on Wikipedia one day.

So even if my theory is laughable and offensive, the best thing about it is that it stimulates imagination, which, in the end, has all the answers.