Big Bang?

[Cyrus]

François Monti wrote:

> On 27/09/2005 ioannissevastianos wrote:
>
> "Religion, on the other hand, doesn't give a rat's ass (I always 
> wanted to use that expression, thanks for the opportunity) what the 
> data say. The Bible says so, so it's so. And you need tons of faith to 
> buy that."
>
>
> How strange then that the big bang theory was first proposed to 
> scientific examination by Georges Lemaître, who happened to be a... 
> catholic priest.


Well, not so strange. After all, he was a scientist and, anyway, his 
"cosmic egg exploding at the moment of the creation" is not incompatible 
to the catholic view of the creation. And remember, catholics don't take 
the Bible too literally, unlike evangelicals.

Cyrus