What's up with creationism?

[Catholic_Lady]

Pool, personally I don't see the conflict between evolution and the belief in God. We learned about evolution during science class in my Catholic grade school, so with me, there's never been a conflict. The scientist who developed the theory of the big bang was a Catholic priest.

With the greatest of respect, I am so sick of seeing this pop up over and over again.

Yes, Georges Lemaître was a Catholic priest, but his work in Big Bang cosmology was done in his capacity as an astrophysicist - not as a priest. Really, riding on the coattails of a respected scientist purely because he happened to share your religious beliefs is as spurious as saying that women made the bulletproof vest possible just because the inventor of Kevlar was a woman.

Can we please bury this canard now?

I never said his work was done in his capacity as a priest, that's why I included that he was a scientist. 

When people keep acting as though devout Catholics cannot accept evolution, I feel compelled to remind them of a few things. One being that the daddy of the Big Bang, was, himself, a devout Catholic. Another being that I first learned about evolution in Catholic school. I don't know why anyone would have a problem with me explaining those 2 points when people act all shocked that I accept evolution.