(August 16, 2017 at 8:56 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:This one?(August 15, 2017 at 1:58 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: And of course, there's the little detail that the man who first presented the big bang theory was a catholic priest who was also a scientist.
Yes the same Georges Lemâitre who pissed all over the then pontiff for daring to say the big bang was proof for god. When I get home I can dig out the relevant quote.
Quote:As far as I see, such a theory [of the primeval atom] remains entirely outside any metaphysical or religious question. It leaves the materialist free to deny any transcendental Being. He may keep, for the bottom of space-time, the same attitude of mind he has been able to adopt for events occurring in non-singular places in space-time. For the believer, it removes any attempt to familiarity with God, as were Laplace's chiquenaude or Jeans' finger. It is consonant with the wording of Isaiah speaking of the 'Hidden God' hidden even in the beginning of the universe ... Science has not to surrender in face of the Universe and when Pascal tries to infer the existence of God from the supposed infinitude of Nature, we may think that he is looking in the wrong direction.https://todayinsci.com/L/Lemaitre_George...ations.htm