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The big-bang theory goes back much farther than 1929. Over 1,300 years ago, God revealed to his apostle Mohammed: "Are the disbelievers unaware that the heavens and the earth were one solid mass which we tore asunder, and that we made every living thing of water?" (Quoted from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1977 | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

Heavens to Geppetto! Carlo Collodi's 1883 children's classic, The Adventures of Pinocchio, had incurred the wrath of citizens in the Japanese city of Nagoya. Calling themselves Pinokio Wo Arau Kai (Association to Wash Pinocchio), they demanded recall of 19 Japanese editions of the book available in stores and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Nose Out of Joint | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Building on these discoveries, scientists can now envision a still expanding universe that began almost 20 billion years ago, extends for 20 billion light years and contains 10 billion galaxies −each one an island of hundreds of billions of stars. Looking into the star-filled firmament, astronomers actually perceive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STARS Where Life Begins | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. And God said, "Let there be light, " and there was light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STARS Where Life Begins | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

But there is one kind of celestial display that could account for Matthew's reference to the star of Bethlehem. Studies of early calendars and historical records of the events immediately preceding and following the nativity suggest to many scholars that Jesus was probably born some time during the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Holy Light | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

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