(January 16, 2016 at 4:54 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(January 16, 2016 at 4:20 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I'm not sure what is so hard to understand. Yes, his work as a scientist and his work as a priest were 2 separate vocations. The fact that he could be both things at the same time without compromising each position shows that the Church takes no issue whatsoever with the acceptance of evolution. There is no conflict between the 2. That's the point.
Then it's not a particularly flattering point. If the message, essentially, is that being Catholic doesn't mean you're not open minded and you can actually make a useful contribution to science, it's as patronising as telling women not to worry about not being male because they too can be scientists.
Oh, and the Big Bang isn't part of evolution theory.
It's really, really hard for you to let go of this, isn't it?
After having it pointed out to you that Lemaitre was a Catholic priest (and there were literally dozens of famous scientists who were also Christians throughout the course of history), you can't bring yourself to simply drop the subject.
And why is this? Because you really don't want to acknowledge that there is NOTHING incompatible between science and Christianity, do you?
