The really incredible thing is that there have been so few attempts to truly and logically marry our observations of the Multiverse with the myriad superstitions and faiths that enrich our cultures and cause untold bloodshed and genocide. What I'm hammering at, besides the maid, is that there are even specific markers, if one is willing to stretch out and sedate one's sense of pragmatism. Consider the premise of mitochondrial DNA- a permanent, evolving record of the growth, mutation, and development of the species that exists within each cell and is passed by a direct female line of descent. The possibility exists, then, that on a microgenetic level, our cells have an ambiently-aware record of the whole of human history- potentially unlockable. Extrapolate this to our astronomical observations: In the first minute following the Big Bang, there were equal amounts of matter and anti-matter. These, when they meet, annihilate one another, being for all intents and purposes opposites of one another. (Positrons and Anti-Protons instead of Electrons and Protons). Consider, as my mentor Svlad Cjelli taught, the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Consider the Multiverse as a macroscopic entity with chaotic swirling guts of which we are a subatomic ass-crease. Is it not possible, given that we arose from heavy elements spewed by supernovae across the cosmos, that our quivering energy packets remember the great conflict that followed the beginning of our all? If, for example, some faiths speak of a War in Heaven, could this not logically follow as a sort of collective consciousness remembrance, in the critical moments when the balance tipped, and the asymmetry of the Universe became a mystery? (It is perfectly reasonable to assume, given modern understanding, that one parallel Universe must probably exist, wherein the antimatter holds sway- black hole gateways, anyone?)

Addendum: Given a multiverse, a defined field of existence with multiple universes (each having a different representative dark energy/matter content as the latest theories go), we are obviously NOT in possession of a full catalog of the energy fields that comprise the whole of reality, and we are apparently still painfully unaware of elements such as the size and scale of the WHOLE cosmos. Multiverse theory is a super-Copernican revolution in the way we understand, well, everything. One of the nagging questions has always been, "If there was a 'Big Bang', what came before it, and what sparked it? Essentially, the idea of 'nothingness' is big in the mind of athestic/agnostic/secular thought, and leaves the arena open and well ripe for the imposition of some form of organized religion." More and more, the work of astrophysicists points toward our Universe being a cell, one of countless (the math projects 10 to the 500 different Universes as a solid probability {as solid as any theory can be in this field}) that, given our study of life from the subatomic to the ecosystem, suggests a composition rather like a living organism or organ system- each Universe performing its metabolic and thermal functions as some supporting role to the greater (Q).

The idea of Deep Time and a geologic or even galactic time scale would seem to me to fit so very well with most faiths, anyway- the timeless nature of the stars, our only true visible deities from whence we were spewed (see Coriakin, Ramandu, Akhenaten, et al.). Bill Nye reaches out with his careworn face and his thinly veiled contempt to express that Creationism is not appropriate for children, and I want to jump up from my massage chair in the mall, unzip and start waving the ol' bald Jesuit at people until they listen to the important secular wisdom... until I remember that diversity and pain are the only two true educational precepts, and that toaster strudel probably contains lead-based paint. Bill's making a garage sale out of assertiveness training, and he's taking the last barrel of Legos and melting them on hot lightbulbs in his bedroom so they bubble and stick to his fingers. He enjoys the pain, but not sexually. In summary, pay your dues to the Society of the Second Coming of the Great Prophet Zarquon.