A central teaching of Gnosticism is that Satan created the world
we inhabit. In this day and age, this sounds like an absurd
assertion, yet scientists have recently started to take
seriously the notion that super-intelligent angelic beings may
be our creators. Is science catching up with the truths that
Gnostics preached millennia ago? A few years ago, in an article
entitled “Children of an alien God”, science writer Marcus Chown
presented a picture that chimes with the Gnostic vision of
Biblical creation. Our Universe may have been created by
superior beings in another universe, according to a physicist in
the US. If he is correct, it may finally explain what Albert
Einstein called the most incomprehensible thing about the
universe: the fact that it is comprehensible to human beings.
Edward Harrison of the University of Massachusetts came to this
astonishing conclusion after attempting to explain one of the
great puzzles of science: why the “fundamental constants” of
nature appear to be “fine-tuned” for the