(January 16, 2016 at 3:27 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(January 16, 2016 at 1:55 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: 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?
This is an unfounded rumor or story? How?
That Fr. Lemaitre might be considered the "Father" of the big bang theory is no rumor, and the reason that Christians (Catholics especially) like to remind folks of this fact is because there seems to be a genuine canard that the Christian faith is incompatible with cutting edge science.
Never was. Never will be.
