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The big bang theory isn't even incompatible with the idea that 'God did it'; the idea was first proposed by a Catholic priest, as a matter of fact! I think the anti-science stance of evangelicals has eclipsed in the modern consciousness the fact that modern science owes much to the Catholic church.

> This startling idea first appeared in scientific form in 1931, in a paper by Georges LemaƮtre, a Belgian cosmologist and Catholic priest.

excerpt from https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosm...



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