@CL: Again with all due respect, what is the relevance of bringing up Lemaître's religious beliefs, if not to co-opt his astrophysics accomplishments into larger Catholicism? Will Hay was a well-respected astronomer with many discoveries in his name, as well as a popular and famous comic actor. See the relevance there?
Neither do I.
Neither do I.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'