You are so right......

You may be IN WV, Pamela, but I suspect you were not born here! I'm a 20-year visitor... definitely not "from" here in WV. Like you, I live well outside of a small rural community. I don't talk religion or politics with locals... there's just no sense. And I vote every time... though it makes little difference. This site was a nice find. There's more of my kind of people on one page here than in my whole WV county. But I stay because it's such a beautiful state... quiet, safe, no traffic.

Hello and welcome. I'm from West Virginia too! This is a great site! Lots of things to see and get into. Conversations, groups, memes, videos, you name it. Watch out though, it's addictive.

Welcome Miss Pamela. We're all here trying to figure out the mystery...one post at a time. Don't be shy.

Consider the possibility that the "big bang" was just the beginning of a new cycle of cosmic expansion, that cosmic history is one of an unending cycle of expansion and contration wity no beginning and no end. That goes even a step farther.

Welcome Pamela!

Welcome Pamela, good intro. I hope you find enjoyment and interest here.

The Big Bang Theory doesn't conflict with the religions I'm familiar with. In fact, some of the original hesitation with the Big Bang Theory came because the instantaneous beginning of time and space seemed so close to religious stories. Unlike those religious stories however, the Big Bang Theory includes testable evidence such as the redshift if galaxies and cosmic background radiation.