There was most certainly a “Big Bang” reported in the news today; two to be exact.

First, “Telescopes to show universe soon after Big Bang” highlights the hunt for “The time when the lights went on in the universe. There was no light before that time,” said Daniel Fabricant, associate director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. This is a detailed report from CNN about future telescopes that can look back in time.

The second story, “Building block of life found on comet” is as interesting as it is straight forward. “The amino acid glycine, a fundamental building block of proteins, has been found in a comet for the first time, bolstering the theory that raw ingredients of life arrived on Earth from outer space” according to the article’s author, Steve Gorman from Reuters.

“The latest findings add credence to the notion that extraterrestrial objects such as meteorites and comets may have seeded ancient Earth, and other planets, with the raw materials of life that formed elsewhere in the cosmos.”

As we look deeper into outer space, farther back in time, what if we discover “life” is a universal concept? What if we discover Extraterrestrial Glycine and the Garden of Eden are somehow connected? What if Deity and dirt are one in the same? What if we discover our universe populated with neighbors and those neighbors are our cousins?  Will knowing someone else exists change who we believe we are?

As we create telescopes to reach deeper into outer space what will we discover about the depths of inner space?