Science, Religion, and the Big Bang
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Physicists used to think that the universe had existed forever, unchangingly, becausethat's what their observations of the night sky suggested. Needless to say, this viewclashed with the "origin" or "creation" stories of most major religions, which hold that theuniverse had a beginning.So it's not surprising that it was a Catholic priest, Georges Lemaître, who was one ofthe first major proponents of a new scientific viewpoint - that the universe DID have a beginning.Lemaître, of course, was also an excellent mathematician and scientist and based thisconviction not (just) on his religious beliefs but upon new experimental evidence from EdwinHubble that showed the universe was expanding. This evidence, combined wit...
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Physicists used to think that the universe had existed forever, unchangingly, becausethat's what their observations of the night sky suggested. Needless to say, this viewclashed with the "origin" or "creation" stories of most major religions, which hold that theuniverse had a beginning.So it's not surprising that it was a Catholic priest, Georges Lemaître, who was one ofthe first major proponents of a new scientific viewpoint - that the universe DID have a beginning.Lemaître, of course, was also an excellent mathematician and scientist and based thisconviction not (just) on his religious beliefs but upon new experimental evidence from EdwinHubble that showed the universe was expanding. This evidence, combined wit...
