Reply #23: Other interpretations

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"the heavens and the earth were joined together"

A child before being born, at one with the mother.
Any period of perceived "ancient glory", where the present time is seen as a degenerate condition.
Any state of bliss where one feels "at one with the universe".

"With power did We construct heaven. Verily, We are expanding it."

Any expansion of a movement, kingdom, empire, doctrine. Creating a better world, and making it grow.

Could mean what other than the heavens and the earth were joined together?

It's only by allowing a HUGE amount of poetic license that the English words "heaven" and "earth", or any words from past languages for which those English words are used as translations, that a "heaven" being together with, then separated from an "earth" is anything at all like what we theorize about the Big Bang.

That the physical heavens and earth were combined/joined together is a precise concept perfectly matching contemporary physics.

Precise? Precise? Maybe there are multiple universes, and the dictionary you use for words like "precise" comes from one of them.

Lots of things expand, lot of things split, lots of things undergo majestic change (or can by mythologized as such). Yes, I can see how some people go "ooh!" and "aah!" at some of these kinds of parallels, but then again, it's like the experiment where a room full of people are all given the same horoscope, not knowing that everyone else in the room is getting exactly the same thing they are, and the large majority of people in the room think the horoscope is an amazingly good personalized match for themselves.

Hindsight is 20/20, especially when it comes to thinking you can see patterns and parallels. Show me a totally new breakthrough in physics made purely by parsing ancient texts FIRST, then discovering the new physical laws, rather than solid scientific research coming first, and the "wisdom" and "insight" of ancient texts only discovered retrospect, THEN I'll be impressed.