This book, indeed, virtually recognizes, or at least
confirms, the point that I am making in this present essay, for the author explicitly states in his Preface that the reader should turn to other (
earlier) books for the data of the religions, while he is moving on from these to proffer an
interpretation of those data (cf. his note 1 to chap.
If this
interpretation of the observations is correct, it could
confirm a 30 - year - old prediction of the cosmic inflation theory: that the simplest models of inflation can generate an observable level of gravitational waves, comparable to density or temperature fluctuations in the
early universe.