When I was a boy of
14, I had figured out the issues of god and creation pretty much the
way Baruch Spinoza had, 400 years earlier.
This was also the time when nuclear physics and cosmology were coming together to understand the galactic red shift as evidence of a big bang theory.
To me, the point origin of the universe sounded too much like Judeo-Christian theology (really just Judeo, because Christianity doesn't have its own cosmology).
I looked forward to the day when the Big Bang Theory would be displaced by Hindu or Daoist theology. I didn't expect to see that day.
But it arrived. A Chinese scholar (Wun-Yi Shu at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan) has demonstrated that because time, space and gravity are mathematically connected, the universe could be expanding and contracting over time and we would not be able to detect it. Almost pure Daoist cosmology.
Three cheers.