Genesis II The subject of "The Beginning" has always been a fascinating one. There are more questions than there are answers for all we seek to know about it. I am certainly no physicist and my dreams of becoming an astronomer when I was a young boy were quickly foiled when I began to realize there would need to be an enormous amount of physics, chemistry, and mathematical study. Dreams can excite our imagination for a lifetime though. When I look at this scene, it seems that something is in the process of being formed. There is a "coming together" aspect to it. Interestingly, it is "without form" just as it must have been in the very beginning of the creation. The colors are strong and yet they mingle in a rather non-combative way -- almost as if they might at some point unite into something much greater than the sum of their parts. Technically, we might also think of the stars in this scene as needing to be "of the same age" as the colorful event that is taking place. This would lead us to think they were PART OF the event itself. And so, the questioning remains for us to ponder. "What was the first split second of time really like when all matter came into existence?" Back