I'm sure I mentioned that I'm not a fan of the Big Bang theory. One for logical reasons, but it is also a projection of our linear temporal experience onto a physical reality that, I think, is better explained as a thermodynamic convection cycle, between energy radiating out, as matter/form coalesces in.

While the person to first propose it, Georges Lemaitre, was also a Catholic priest, he stated his religious and scientific studies were separate, though it's hard to believe there wasn't a large amount of influence, to frame the larger reality as a singular entity and unitary process, rather than an infinite network, with nodes of structure condensing out of this unbounded field.

Our tendency to see the world in such singular terms does bear on how we treat each other, in that it's hard to let go of our own frame of reference in trying to make sense of and dealing with others. Not to mention obsessively framing our lives around others attention.

Bonding with the crowd. Even when the crowd seems increasingly divorced from the larger reality.

It's all getting increasingly educational.