Article: CREATION: ANSWERS PRODUCE MORE QUESTIONS.(LIFE & LEISURE)

Byline: ROBERT S. BOYD Knight-Ridder

Equipped with magnificent new tools space telescopes, exquisitely sensitive radiation detectors, supercomputers astronomers are rapidly pushing back the limits of knowledge about the origin of the universe.

Technology is transforming cosmology, the study of when, how and why the universe was created, from purely theoretical speculation to actual observation.

Scientists can detect the heat and light radiating from galaxies that were born billions of years ago, not long after the ``Big Bang'' that most of them now believe marked the beginning of time and space.

``The golden age of cosmology is ...

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