Interesting Dissent [Primacy of Existence vs Primacy of Consciousness]

 When NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe launched from Cape Canaveral in 2001, scientists dreamed of capturing "the ultimate baby picture: an image of the infant universe." Five years later, those dreams have been realized. Data collected by WMAP and made public Thursday offers the strongest evidence yet that the universe started with a Big Bang and inflated in size from a tiny speck to colossal proportions in a fraction of a second. The data also shed new light on the universe's precise age and makeup. That makes the WMAP mission a milestone in humankind's understanding of how it all began.