Sentences with phrase «untold number of galaxies»

The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our tiny planet is but one blip on the screen.

After some more thought, they postulated that something else had to be the «glue» that held, not only the Andromeda galaxy together, but all the universe, with its untold number of galaxies.