Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

By Jastrow’s own analysis, God is the only answer that fits all the facts—but he wouldn’t subscribe to it unequivocally. Was he afraid of losing his reputation, of suffering the scorn of his atheistic/agnostic colleagues? His speculations did not answer anything but only added further questions. Where did this energy come from? How long had it been sitting there (wherever “there” was) waiting to explode? How did this bundle of energy become “packed together into one dense mass of enormous density, pressure and temperature”?