A NICE SUMMARY of a the history of the Universe. Early this year I had the chance to hear some leading astrophysicists and cosmologists describe the Universe's first moments, and their description was very much the same. After telling the story, a person in the audience noted, "You mean to tell me that in the first moments of the Universe everything was dark, then there was light, then there was matter ... that sounds an awful lot like Genesis." The reply: "That's not lost on us."

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