Of course, the origin of life on Earth is not the same
thing as the origin of the universe, so the two
theories don't logically exclude each other.

Gunnar

--- Ong Yong Peng <yongpeng.ong@...> wrote:

>
>
> Dear John and friends,
>
> you may like to know the latest scientific research
> reveals that our
> universe started in a liquid state, which exists for
> a tiny fraction
> of a second after the Big Bang!
>
> This somehow coincide with the Aganna Sutta, in
> which the Buddha
> talked about "one world of water" ... "at one time"!
>
> Although, more commonly, people interpreted this to
> match an earlier
> scientific theory that life began in the ocean.
>
> It will be interesting if we can have a detailed
> study of Aganna
> Sutta.
>
> References:
> http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?
> siteSect=143&sid=5696818&cKey=1113845722000
>
>

http://www.webcastmy.com.my/bodhivision/aganna/lesson3/pt3.htm

>
>
> metta,
> Yong Peng.

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