When a Catholic priest’s ‘primordial atom’ (1931) collides with Guth’s multiverse-generating inflation: Dr. Alexander exposes the Big Bang as science’s most philosophically disruptive theory—probing pre-singularity voids and cosmic meaning.

Directly follows Chapter 3’s ‘Importance of Inquiry‘—applying Hawking/Sagan’s question-courage to cosmology’s ultimate ‘beginning’.

Key Scientific-Metaphysical Bridges

1. Lemaître’s Dual Legacy
   • Priest-scientist tension: “Can divine causation coexist with quantum fluctuations?”
2. Inflation’s Existential Threat
   • Multiverse implication: “If infinite variations exist, is human purpose diluted?”
3. Fine-Tuning Frontier
   • Hydrogen-helium-lithium precision → “Design or quantum accident?”
4. My Thesis’ Innovation
   • Positions multiverse as “scientific validation of interconnectedness philosophies”