Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

7 - "IT"
revolutionary intervention.
The core of Monod's thesis is that the decisive event of life coming
into being took place once and once only. Monod says: "Man knows at
last that he is alone in the indifferent illimitable universe, from which
he emerged by chance. Nothing about his fate and his duty was ever
decreed."
Life as a winner of nature's lottery? Although the atheistic professor's
ideas may have an impeccable scientific foundation, the decisive
question still remains unanswered. What primordial force prepared the
chemical substances for the coming into being of life? Whence came
the ingredients for the primordial soup on which the first life swam
like the circles of fat on top of consommé?
Out of the atmosphere, of course, answers science. But that answer
does not satisfy me. Like a curious child I ask: where did the
atmosphere come from? From the envelope of the cooling earth, my
son. And where did the earth come from? It is a part of the sun, my
son. And the sun? It is a part of the Milky Way, my son. Where does
the Milky Way come from? It is part of all the other Milky Ways in the
universe, my son. And where do those Milky Ways come from? There
are only theories about that, my son.
Professor Georges Lemaitre, physicist and mathematician from
Brussels, introduced a phenomenal idea into the endless discussions
about the origin of all worlds. Billions of years ago all the matter in the
universe was compressed into a single original atom, a heavy mass of
matter, the cohesion of which pressed permanently against its nucleus.
The incredible forces involved added and multiplied so that the lump
of matter exploded. Splintered into many, many billions of pieces, the
bits of matter assembled into finitely numerous galaxies over a long
period of consolidation. The Russian physicist George Gamow (1904-
), who came to the University of Michigan by way of Paris and
London, is known in the scientific world for his knack of inventing