Interesting side note:
A Belgian priest by the name of Georges Lemaitre was the one who came up with the idea that the universe started with an explosion (he called it his 'hypothesis of the primeval atom'). He called it a "Cosmic Egg" exploding at the moment of creation--which his critics later derided as a "Big Bang" (critics who hailed from such places as Cambridge).
So, I find it interesting that those who deride belief in God adhere to a theory proposed by a priest, and used the name for it as coined by critics of his theory...
There is a book, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, by Joseph Chilton Pierce, on philosophy and consciousness, that calls up the classical Greek concept of metanoia, or a super-eureka, a redefining moment of discovery or epiphany, a chain reaction of paradigm shifts. I was taking a course on creative thinking at the time, over thirty years ago, it seemed pretty new age.
Fifteen years ago I learned the difference between metanoia and metamelomae (greek)(sp?). Metanoia means a change of heart that results in a change of life. Metamelomae means a recognition of wrong and a turning away. The overwhelming use in the New Testament of the greek word translated into english as repentance is metanoia, and only in a few instances is it the negative metamelomae. I was blown away.
That gives a new picture of the cosmic egg. Thanks, I did not remember about Lemaitre.