Also, I suggest that you stalk the science channel online to find out the times when “the six billion dollar experiment” is showing. I watched it. It be awesome. It’s a huge experiment 300 feet (I think) underground overseas where they have finally (they think) figured out how to re-create the big bang. It’s a gigantic particle accelerator. Essentially (if something goes wrong) this will mimic a black hole, and if strong enough it could actually start to pull in things around it. I’m serious. They claim it’s not strong enough, but this is uncharted territory. Anything can happen. 

This thing is massive.

http://www.livephysics.com/physics-videos/technology/the-six-billion-dollar-experiment.html

Since light takes a while to reach us, things that we study and observe in the universe through telescopes and whatnot are actually pictures into things occurring in the past. We are not viewing the present when we peek into space. The farther you can observe and see, the most you are traveling into the past. Unfortunately our technology only lets us get to the brink of the universe so we can observe a few gazillion years ago. The problem with that is if we view back to when the big bang happened, we’ll see nothing but empty universe. Once technology improves (or this monster of a machine actually works) we will know how the big bang worked.

Hopefully science will trump religion once again.

Watch it. It’s even much cooler than the giraffes.